SAN FRANCISCO—On Thursday, December 4, at San Francisco Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg General Hospital in Ward 86 HIV clinic area, a stabbing incident occurred between Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi, 34, and a 31-year-old University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) male social worker.
During the aftermath, an on-site medical staff at San Francisco General Hospital provided immediate life-saving aid, which included cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to the social worker. The victim sustained multiple stabbing wounds to the neck and shoulder upon being repeatedly stabbed. He was transported to the operating room in critical condition, where he underwent surgery.
The sheriff’s deputies discovered a five-inch kitchen knife that is likely the weapon used in the attack. Arriechi was taken into custody and he was booked into San Francisco County Jails at the City and County of San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, charging him with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, mayhem and being armed during the commission of a felony for his attack on the social worker while the Sheriff’s Office confirmed there was no real, ongoing threat to the public at-large.
A sheriff’s deputy provided access to Arriechi when they heard a disturbance in the corridor of where he was receiving care. They intervened at approximately 1:30 p.m., where hospital staff requested extra security for a specific doctor, who was previously threatened by Arriechi. He was at San Francisco General Hospital for a scheduled doctor’s appointment.
