- A suspect in a home invasion is charged with trying to kill someone.
- Paul Pelosi needs surgery for a broken skull and other injuries.
- The district attorney says the suspect “tried to kill” Pelosi.
- Two sources told NBC News that the suspect was looking for the House speaker. The police are looking for a reason.
- The man who is said to have hit Paul Pelosi with a hammer is David DePape, according to the San Francisco Police Department.
- The 42-year-old man is thought to have gone into the Pelosi home through the back door and yelled, “Where’s Nancy?” He was looking for the Democratic speaker of the House, who was in Washington, DC, at the time.
- On Dec. 19, 2013, DePape records Gypsy Taub’s nude wedding in front of San Francisco City Hall.
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David DePape, 42, is the person they think attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer at their home in California. Paul Pelosi is the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Police said that DePape will be charged with, among other things, trying to kill someone.
Two sources told NBC News that the suspect was looking for the House speaker. Police have said that they are still trying to figure out why.
At the time of the break-in, the U.S. Capitol Police said, the House speaker was in Washington, D.C., with her security team.
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The suspect “was trying to kill” Pelosi, the district attorney says. The man who is accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer at his home on Friday, the district attorney of San Francisco said, will likely be charged with attempted murder and other crimes.
“It’s clear that he was trying to kill Mr. Pelosi when he hit him in the head,” District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told NBC Bay Area on Friday night.
She told the station that her office plans to file charges of attempted murder, residential burglary, elder abuse, and assault with a deadly weapon.
David DePape, who is 42 years old, is accused of breaking into the Pelosi home and hitting Pelosi with a hammer at least once. Pelosi is the husband of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
A spokesman for Nancy Pelosi said that Paul Pelosi, who is 82 years old, had surgery for a broken skull and is now getting better.
Bill Scott, the chief of police in San Francisco, said that the attack was planned and not an accident. No reason has been given for the attack.
DePape was in the hospital on Friday, but Scott said he will be arrested either in person or by mail.
“This was not a random act,” said San Francisco police about the attack on Pelosi. This was done on purpose.’ The head of a House committee says that the attack on Pelosi on January 6 is a “symptom” of domestic terrorism.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, who is in charge of the House committee looking into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, said that the attack on Paul Pelosi was “abhorrent.” He also told his fellow lawmakers to reject “divisive” conspiracy theories that have led to violence, he said.
Thompson, D-Miss., said, “Unfortunately, the attack on Paul Pelosi seems to be a sign of a much bigger problem in our democracy.” “In the past few years, violent, racist, antisemitic, and anti-democratic speech has contributed to an increase in domestic terrorism.”
Thompson used the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 and the Capitol riot as examples of how armed attackers have used violence to get their way. “People who call themselves “vigilantes” have scared voters at ballot drop boxes and bothered local election officials. “This is not what America is all about,” Thompson said.
Thompson said, “I call on my colleagues in Congress and elected officials across the country to put country before party and reject the conspiracy theories that are so divisive, even if they seem to give them a political edge.”
Thompson, who is also the chair of the House committee on homeland security, asked federal agencies and law enforcement to do more to protect officials and elections as the midterms get closer.
The dispatcher’s actions saved lives, said the police chief
San Francisco’s police chief said that the person who took the 911 call about Paul Pelosi being attacked and broken into on Friday may have saved his life.
Chief Bill Scott said that the dispatcher handled the call about the early Friday break-in and attack at the Pelosi home with “intuition and speed.”
“She had to figure out what was being said to her. “From what she knew and what she felt, she figured out that there was more to this story than what she was being told,” Scott said.
He said, “I think her actions led to a higher priority dispatch and a faster police response.” “I think that this saved lives.”
Police say that 82-year-old Paul Pelosi, who is married to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was hit with a hammer at least once during the break-in at their San Francisco home.
At the time, Nancy Pelosi was in Washington, D.C. Nancy Pelosi’s spokesman said that Paul Pelosi had surgery for a broken skull and is expected to get better.
