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July 7, 2015: Francisco Sanchez, right, is lead into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. (AP)
The gun used by a Mexican illegal immigrant when he allegedly shot dead a 32-year-old woman at a San Francisco pier belonged to a federal agent, a source confirmed to Fox News Tuesday.
It was not immediately clear how Francisco Sanchez, 45, would have obtained the weapon. However, the San Francisco Chronicle reported sources told the paper the gun had been stolen during a car burglary in June.
Earlier Tuesday, Sanchez pled not guilty to first-degree murder in last week's shooting of Kathryn Steinle, 32, while she was walking with her father and a family friend at Pier 14. Police said witnesses heard no argument or dispute before the shooting, suggesting it was a random attack.
Sanchez had previously told KGO-TV Sunday in a mix of Spanish and English that he found a gun wrapped inside a shirt while he was sitting on a bench at the pier and smoking a cigarette.
"So I picked it up and ... it started to fire on its own," Sanchez said, adding that he heard three shots go off.
A source familiar with the investigation told the San Francisco Chronicle that Sanchez said he was at the popular pier to shoot at sea lions, and discarded the firearm after realizing he had shot Steinle.
The shooting has drawn national attention and criticism of the city's sanctuary ordinance after federal officials revealed that Sanchez has seven felony convictions and was deported five times to his native Mexico.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had turned Sanchez over to authorities in San Francisco on March 26 on an outstanding drug warrant.
The Sheriff's Department released Sanchez on April 15 after the San Francisco district attorney's office declined to prosecute him for what authorities said was a decade-old marijuana possession case.
ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said the agency had issued a detainer for Sanchez, requesting notification of his release and that he stays in custody until immigration authorities could pick him up. The detainer was not honored, she said.
Freya Horne, counsel for the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, said Friday that federal detention requests are not sufficient to hold someone. Under the city's sanctuary ordinance, people in the country illegally aren't handed over to immigration officials unless there's a warrant for their arrest.
Fox News' Jessica Miller and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bay-area-news-crews-robbed-20150702-story.htmlBay Area news crews robbed on live TV while reporting on homicide
Two Bay Area news crews were robbed at gunpoint and a camera operator was pistol-whipped on live TV Thursday while they were reporting on a homicide in San Francisco, according to area news reports.
Crews from KNTV-Channel 11 and KTVU-Channel 2 were reporting live at 6:03 a.m. on the shooting death
of a woman at Pier 14 when someone stole camera equipment, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
of a woman at Pier 14 when someone stole camera equipment, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
Part of the robbery was captured on air, showing a man hitting KNTV-TV camera operator Alan Waples with a gun.
Video shows the gunman approach Waples and put a gun to his head while
reporter Kris Sanchez pleads for him not to shoot, the Chronicle reported.
Waples was flung to the ground and struck with the gun. San Francisco police say
Waples suffered a head injury.
According to KNTV-TV, the cameraman’s ear was cut.
The gunman and two other men fled the scene in a black BMW with the crews’ cameras and tripods, police
said.
said.
The TV crews were reporting on the death of a 31-year-old woman who was found lying on the pier at
6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
San Francisco police said the Pleasanton woman suffered a gunshot wound in her upper torso. She was taken
to an area hospital, where she later died.
to an area hospital, where she later died.
According to the Chronicle, Bay Area news crews have recently stepped up their security because of a string of thefts targeting them.
This isn’t the first time a KTVU-TV crew has been robbed.
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