British tourist stabbed in San Francisco mugging dies

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A British tourist who was stabbed in the head during a robbery in San Francisco died after being hospitalized for more than a month, police said.

Paul Tam, 48, of Manchester, died Thursday at San Francisco General Hospital, where he was taken after the Feb. 18 attack, San Francisco Police Officer Albie Esparza said.

Tam was walking with his niece when he was attacked by a couple. Tam tried to hold onto his messenger bag but was stabbed in the head by the male suspect, Esparza told the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1XSWL9J).

His niece, who is from Southern California, was not injured, San Francisco Police Officer Carlos Manfredi said.

Security video released Friday by police shows the attacker chasing Tam onto a street, stabbing him while he's on the ground and taking his bag before running away.

"As he is going around the vehicle he falls down, it's at that point that the suspect not only wanted to take the victim's bag, but he wanted to take his life," Manfredi told San Francisco television station KGO.

Police have yet to make an arrest in the attack, which is now being investigated as a homicide.

The San Francisco Police Officer's Association is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the two suspects.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-03-28

No description of the assailants? Were they Black? White?

Original report here:

British tourist 'fighting for life' after stab attack in San Francisco

My God! Can't believe those Yanks still allow ownership of knives! Barbaric instruments of murder, should be banned!

No description of the assailants? Were they Black? White?

They were described as black, but they were probably other Brits or Eurps, because an American would have shot him.

No description of the assailants? Were they Black? White?

Police are now hunting the man - described as black, muscular in his 30s or 40s, and the woman, also black, and had dreadlocks or braids in a ponytail. She was said to in her late 20s.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/12167791/British-tourist-fighting-for-life-after-stab-attack-in-San-Francisco.html

What! No gun! Nah. Impossible!

You really should be able to pick up a firearm at the airport when you get your SIM card.

What! No gun! Nah. Impossible!

So funny.

The difference is however that the knife didn't fire dozens of times killing multiple victims.

Sure a knife is a dangerous item, especially in expert hands, easier to conceal and so forth but I'd rather come up against an assailant with a knife than one holding a loaded AK47.

My God! Can't believe those Yanks still allow ownership of knives! Barbaric instruments of murder, should be banned!

Ban Americans, not the knives!

Ban both!

What! No gun! Nah. Impossible!

So funny.

The difference is however that the knife didn't fire dozens of times killing multiple victims.

Sure a knife is a dangerous item, especially in expert hands, easier to conceal and so forth but I'd rather come up against an assailant with a knife than one holding a loaded AK47.

Oh I'm sure that'll come as a GREAT consolation & comfort to the victim, wherever he is, and to his survivors, not to mention the thousands of other non-gun murder victims. They're probably not really as dead.

What! No gun! Nah. Impossible!

So funny.

The difference is however that the knife didn't fire dozens of times killing multiple victims.

Sure a knife is a dangerous item, especially in expert hands, easier to conceal and so forth but I'd rather come up against an assailant with a knife than one holding a loaded AK47.

Oh I'm sure that'll come as a GREAT consolation & comfort to the victim, wherever he is, and to his survivors, not to mention the thousands of other non-gun murder victims. They're probably not really as dead.

No, it won't. But what's your point, knifes are just as dangerous as guns? Knifes have one sole purpose, killing people?

Obviously the tourist's fault - if he and his niece had both been carrying an assault rifle then of course the assailant would have looked for an old lady to mug instead. Could never happen in Thailand.

written without a hint of sarcasm......