SAN FRANCISCO—On March 14, 2025, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office disclosed that Sergii Sakhno, 37, was charged in connection to a violent SOMA hotel room throat slashing. He was arraigned on March 13, 2025, and pleaded not guilty and denied the allegation. He is charged with murder (PC 187(a)) with an allegation that he personally and intentionally used a deadly and dangerous weapon in the commission of the murder (PC12022(b)(1)).
According to court documents, on October 30, 2024, the defendant allegedly cut the victim’s throat twice, cutting into the bone, killing the victim in a hotel room in a Seventh Street hotel in SOMA. Allegedly, after killing the victim, Sakhno tried to clean the blood splattered all over the room with bleach. At 4:30 p.m., officers with the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call regarding an unresponsive person in a hotel room and arrived on scene and smelled a strong odor of bleach coming from the room which had been ransacked.
Officers found the victim’s body on the bathroom floor with half the victim’s legs in the shower. The victim had two large fatal incisions in his neck which severed major arteries, veins, the trachea, and victim’s spine. Sakhno was taken into custody the next day on October 31, 2024, following an unrelated incident. At the time of the arrest, he was found in possession of the murder victim’s phone.
The defendant is currently in custody. The District Attorney’s Office moved to have him detained pending trial due to the public safety risk he poses. The court granted the motion to detain pending trial without prejudice. His next court date is April 8, 2025, to set future court proceedings.
Although charges have been filed, and this case is being handled by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Homicide Unit, the San Francisco Police Department is still investigating the case. Anyone with information can contact the SFPD Tip Line at 1-415-575-4444 or Text a Tip to TIP411 and begin the text message with SFPD.
