A man was struck in the head with a metal pipe because he refused to buy the attacker booze at Eighth and Market streets early Friday, police said.
The thirsty thug became insanely jealous that the 47-year-old victim was drinking alcohol at the intersection about 1 a.m. The 50-year-old asked the victim to give him money for booze but was rejected, Sgt. Dennis Toomer said.
In response, Toomer said, “the suspect hit him in the head with a metal pipe twice.”
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A trio of thugs jumped a pizza deliveryman for his cash in the Bayview district Sunday, police said.
The victim had delivered a pizza about 4:45 p.m. in the first block of Dakota Street, police said, when three men in their 20s attacked him and took his cash. The three goons fled and no arrests have been made.
The victim reportedly did not sustain serious injuries.
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The man who is suspected in the crazed and brutal attack on a 94-year-old woman in Chinatown on Saturday has been arrested, police said Tuesday.
James Bartley, 52, of San Francisco, was charged Tuesday with four felonies, including aggravated assault, battery causing serious injury, elder abuse and criminal threats, police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.
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A man was arrested last weekend after assaulting a liquor store owner with a bottle of beer he thought was overpriced, police said.
About 11:15 p.m. Saturday, two men entered the store at 23rd and Kansas streets to buy beer, police said. After paying for the beverages, two 24-ounce bottles, one of the men complained that they were too expensive and began harassing one of the owners.
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A 72-year-old man was struck in the head with a baseball bat for no apparent reason Sunday morning, cops said. The man was standing on the corner of Ellis and Taylor streets around 1:25 a.m. when a man in his 20s approached, struck the man with the bat and fled on foot, police said. Nothing was stolen from the victim. The man was taken to the hospital to be treated for a concussion. No arrest has been made. rnagle@sfexaminer.com
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Two men in their 20s leaving a nightclub in the Union Square area were jumped by four thugs Friday, cops said. The victims were punched and knocked on the ground at Campton Place and Stockton Street around 2:20 a.m., police said. The four hoodlums who jumped them, described by police as men in their 20s, fled the scene on foot. One of the four was taken into custody shortly after the incident, cops said.
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Police are hunting a deranged thug who inexplicably smacked a woman on Mission Street with a white sock apparently filled with rocks, police said Monday.The woman was knocked unconscious during the surprise attack in the 5000 block of Mission Street around 1 p.m. Saturday.She told police she did not know the man who “began swinging what appeared to be a white sock which possibly contained rocks,” police at Ingleside Station said.
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