A father was fatally stabbed whereas strolling his son dwelling from faculty in San Francisco, and a suspect was arrested greater than 130 miles away.
The assault occurred on Wednesday, Sept. 10, close to Commodore Sloat Elementary Faculty within the Balboa Terrace neighborhood.
Robert Paul Byrd II, 35, had picked up his 8-year-old son on the faculty shortly earlier than 5 p.m. The 2 had been strolling, holding arms, in a crosswalk at Junipero Serra Boulevard and Ocean Avenue when Byrd was stabbed by a person with whom he’d had “an altercation,” in response to police.
Byrd died of his accidents at a hospital. The attacker fled earlier than police arrived.
Paul Yep, interim chief of the San Francisco Police Division, mentioned about 60 officers had been deployed to analyze the case. They interviewed witnesses and used license plate readers and surveillance video to attempt to establish the attacker and decide the place he had gone.
Round 9 a.m. Friday, the suspect was taken into custody at an undisclosed location in Tuolumne County. He was recognized as Daniel Patrick Rodriguez, 42.
No metropolis of residence was given for Rodriguez, and the police didn’t say why he was in Tuolumne County. He was dropped at a San Francisco jail on Friday, the police mentioned.
San Francisco District Legal professional Brooke Jenkins mentioned that the killing was not a random assault, however neither she nor Yep would say whether or not Byrd and Rodriguez knew one another.
Initially Printed: September 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM PDT
