The State - News from June 1, 1987

A drifter from Alabama was arrested by San Francisco police on suspicion of having killed two people in a residential hotel and attempting to kill a third person. Homicide Inspector Jim Crowley said detectives were led to Jimmy Coon, 28, in the Tenderloin District after interviewing dozens of people living in and around the Anglo Hotel, a residential hotel frequented by transients and elderly people. Crowley said robbery appeared to have been the motive for attacks on a man in his 90s who was found stabbed to death on the fourth floor of the hotel and on a a 55-year-old woman found stabbed to death on the third floor. A third resident of the hotel, a man in his 60s, was hospitalized in critical condition. Their identities were not immediately available.