Man in wheelchair held in fatal S.F. shooting
A gunman in a wheelchair opened fire on a crowded street in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district early Saturday, killing a woman and wounding four other people, police said.
San Francisco police officers arrested Walter Simon, 32, of Richmond as he tried to flee in his wheelchair shortly after midnight, police Sgt. Neville Gittens said. A gun believed to have been used in the shootings was recovered nearby. Witnesses later identified Simon as the gunman, Gittens said.
The department did not disclose a motive for the shooting. The woman who died may have been shot accidentally by a bullet that missed Simon’s intended target, Gittens said.
Simon was being held at San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of murder and assault with a firearm.
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