San Francisco police have booked a 29-year-old driver for second-degree murder after a pedestrian he is accused of hitting and leaving in the Excelsior died of their injuries.
What police say happened
- Oct. 1, about 7:05 p.m.: Officers responded to a hit-and-run involving a pedestrian at Moscow Street and France Avenue. Paramedics took the victim to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
- Witnesses got a photo of the fleeing car's license plate. Officers at SFPD's Real Time Investigation Center ran it through automated license plate readers.
- Plainclothes officers found the car about 3 miles away and detained the driver, David Maldonado Sanabria. After a DUI investigation, he was booked into county jail.
- Oct. 19: Police were told the victim had died. The victim has not been publicly named.
- Oct. 22: Citing the death, his multiple prior DUI convictions and toxicology results, SFPD booked him for second-degree murder under the People v. Watson standard. He was also booked for gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, two hit-and-run counts, DUI causing great bodily injury and a probation violation.
The San Francisco District Attorney's Office assisted. SFPD announced the booking on Oct. 26. Charges are allegations; he has not been convicted.