San Francisco police on Thursday said they had arrested a 39-year-old man accused of assaulting two Asian seniors.
The victims, a 75-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man, were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries following the Wednesday morning assaults, police said.
Police said both assaults were believed to be unprovoked. Investigators are trying to figure out if racial bias was a motivating factor.
The assaults happened around 10 a.m. in the area of 7th and Market streets, according to police.
Witnesses told police that the suspect, Steven Jenkins, was involved in a physical altercation at UN Plaza roughly 30 minutes before the two assaults. After that altercation, Jenkins approached the 83-year-old man and assaulted him.
A security guard who learned about the assault chased Jenkins on foot, police said. As Jenkins fled, he assaulted the 75-year-old woman.
The security guard managed to detain Jenkins and hold him until police officers arrived.
Jenkins was taken to a hospital to be treated for an unrelated medical condition, police said. He was later booked on two charges of assault likely to produce great bodily injury and two charges of elder abuse.
Ngoc Pham, an 83 year old Vietnamese man, was shopping for groceries at the United Nations Farmers' Market when he was attacked on 7th and Market Street. Ngoc was one of two elderly Asians attacked by the same perpetrator at the same location. As a result of the attack, Ngoc sustained injuries with cuts and bruises on his head from the fall. Ngoc's nose was also fracture and doctor's are also ordering an MRI scan for fractures in his neck bones. It has yet to be determined how serious Ngoc's neck injuries are as doctor's are still evaluating them. Ngoc is still in the hospital and is in good spirits.
teven Jenkins is the man accused of assaulting two elderly Asian people within minutes of each other in San Francisco. The attacks occurred around 10 a.m. on March 17 near the United Nations Plaza.
Jenkins faces two charges of assault likely to produce great bodily injury and two charges of elder abuse, according to a news release Heavy received via email from the San Francisco Police Department. He was booked into the San Francisco County Jail.
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