CA - Yik Oi Huang, 88, brutally beaten, Visitacion Valley Playground, San Francisco, Jan 2019 Arrest

[JerseyGirl]

A witness found San Francisco resident Yik Oi Huang bloodied and unresponsive with multiple fractured bones to her head and ribs laying near the slide on the playground.

A $10,000 reward for anyone providing information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person suspected of brutally beating an 88-year-old woman and leaving her unconscious on the Visitacion Valley Playground early Tuesday morning.

Family members believe she was attacked around 7 a.m. during her normal exercise routine of walking around the park near her Visitacion Valley residence.

Huang remained in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital on Thursday.

SF police union offers $10K reward for arrest in brutal attack of 88-year-old woman

 

[JerseyGirl]

No arrests have been made, but investigators have been reviewing video from the neighborhood and speaking to witnesses.

Family, community rally for San Francisco grandmother assaulted on playground

The beating was so brutal, she was unrecognizable and choking on her own blood.

88-year old woman brutally beaten in SF park, granddaughters seek change

http://www.sfweekly.com/news/attack-on-elderly-woman-shakes-visitacion-valley/

 

[Cryptic]

This horrible attack occurred at 7am in the morning. Nearly all dopers as well as bored, aggressive and loitering youths are fast asleep at this hour.

I am thinking a homeless attacker. I have read that the homeless population of San Francisco has exploded recently and that a noticeable number are openly using drugs. Does anybody know if homeless frequent the park, or have recently begun to cluster there?

As a side note, a location can be identified as advantageous on electronic message boards frequented by homeless youth. This can lead to an overnight influx of large numbers of these youth, often dope addled, and a big increase in drug fueled attacks, theft etc.

 

[asmi106082]

When did this happen? Title says February, 2019??

 

[LaborDayRN]

Though police declined to provide details pending investigation, the victim’s granddaughter Sasanna Yee said in a viral Facebook post that a suspect did not find valuables in Huang’s home “so they drag and beat her up to a bloody pulp in the park.” In a Facebook live video hours after the attack, a neighbor named Virginia told Yee that she was leaving her home to catch the bus when she noticed Wang’s front door was open but no lights were on.

The neighbor went to check on Wang but came across a man in the house, shouted and called her daughter. She described the man as skinny, wearing a jacket and a hood who left the house on foot and walked toward Bayshore Boulevard. Yee lives three blocks from Huang, and ran over when she heard about the attack from her mother.

“It’s pretty bad. I hope she can make it,” Yee said in the video. “It’s a pretty f****** terrible thing, and this is the second time her house has been broken into. I’m tired of this and I want there to be peace in the southeast.”
http://www.sfweekly.com/news/attack-on-elderly-woman-shakes-visitacion-valley/

 

[JerseyGirl]

When did this happen? Title says February, 2019??

My fault! Last Thursday was the crime. Sorry, I changed the title to Jan 2019.

 

[Wagtales10]

im leaning towards vagrant as well.... ugh

 

[JerseyGirl]

http://www.sfexaminer.com/police-union-offers-10k-reward-in-beating-visitacion-valley-grandmother/

 

[JerseyGirl]

San Francisco police say DNA evidence led to an arrest in the brutal beating of a beloved 88-year-old grandmother.

On January 16, a week after the assault, police say 18-year-old Keonte Gathron was involved in a carjacking on Visitacion Avenue.

They say he abandoned the car at a gas station, but not before it captured his face on a security camera video.

Two days later, police learned that DNA evidence taken from the scene of Huang's assault matched Gathron's DNA sample which was in the database, a sample from an old crime.

Police then put out a crime alert showing the gas station video. They now had their suspect.

But, during his freedom Gathron allegedly committed other crimes.

As he rode a red bicycle on Woolsey Avenue, police say he stole a 14-year-old girl's cellphone at gunpoint.

Then, two hours later a new victim - a 17-year-old girl.

The suspect approached the victim on the same red bicycle, punched the victim in the face and stole her iPhone.

Officers tracked the iPhone to the Sunnydale District.

During a search there, they found Gathron after a foot chase hiding in a car.

He has been charged with attempted murder for the assault on Huang, and a long list of other charges for his alleged crimes.

SFPD says DNA led to arrest of suspect in beating of 88-year-old grandmother

 

[JerseyGirl]

An 89-year-old woman who was brutally attacked almost exactly a year ago in a park near her Visitacion Valley home died Friday from her injuries suffered that day - four days before an event already planned to mark the one-year anniversary of the attack.

Yik Oi Huang, also known as Huang Popo, died at 4:45 p.m. Friday at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco. Huang suffered facial and skull fractures as well as a brain injury in the attack as she was doing "her routine exercises" at the Visitacion Valley Playground across from her home, the post said.

The 18-year-old suspect in the attack, Keonte Gathron, was arrested on Jan. 20.

89-Year-Old SF Woman Dies Almost a Year After Brutal Park Attack