The man suspected of fatally shooting a woman at a popular tourist spot in San Francisco last week, a five-time deportee with a criminal record, has spoken to a reporter about how the shooting unfolded, where the gun came from and why he kept returning to the U.S.
Francisco Sanchez, 45, told the Bay Area’s ABC7 News that he accidentally killed 32-year-old Kate Steinle at Pier 14 on Wednesday after taking sleeping pills he’d found, the station reported.
In an interview, Sanchez spoke of finding the gun on the ground near a bench. The station played only a few short clips of what it said was a 45-minute interview, but according to its report, Sanchez said that he found the gun wrapped in a T-shirt and that the weapon went off three times when he picked it up.