San Francisco pier shooting, The U.S. Department of Land Management said Wednesday one of its operators' service guns was used in the shooting demise of a lady strolling on a mainstream San Francisco dock.
BLM spokeswoman Dan Wilson said the weapon was issued to an organization officer and was stolen from the operators' auto while he was in San Francisco on business.
Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, who has been expelled to his local Mexico five times and is suspected of living in the United States wrongfully, told television news stations he discovered the weapon on the wharf and it incidentally shot. He argued not blameworthy Tuesday to murder charges in Kathryn Steinle's passing.
Steinle, 32, was gunned down last week while strolling with her dad along San Francisco's well known waterfront zone.
Government officials transferred Sanchez to San Francisco's penitentiary in March to face a 20-year-old pot charge after he finished his latest prison term for entering the nation unlawfully.
The San Francisco sheriff, refering to the city's "sanctuary city" arrangement, released Sanchez in April after prosecutors dropped the medication charge, despite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement request to hold him for government authorities so expulsion proceedings could start.
He told two television stations who talked with him in prison that he discovered the firearm used in Steinle's slaughtering wrapped in a shirt on the pedestrian wharf she was strolling on. Sanchez said the weapon went off in his hands, and his open guard, Matt Gonzalez, said Tuesday that the San Francisco lady's demise seemed unplanned.
The shooting has touched off criticism from driving Republican lawmakers and from top Democrats, including California's U.S. senators.
Vote based presidential applicant Hillary Clinton told CNN that San Francisco was inappropriate to overlook the ICE detainer request and release Sanchez from custody.
"The city committed an error not to extradite someone that the government strongly felt should be expelled," Clinton said.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein approached San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to start chipping in with government migration officials who need to extradite felons such as Sanchez.
"I strongly accept that an undocumented individual, sentenced numerous felonies and with a detainer request from ICE, should not have been released," Feinstein said.
The chairman's office said it has connected with Homeland Security officials to figure out whether there's an approach to collaborate while still maintaining the city's sanctuary arrangement.
Sen. Barbara Boxer said she asked Gov. Jerry Brown if state law was followed in Sanchez's release.
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has guarded Sanchez's release and the city law obliging his office to overlook ICE detainer requests. The sheriff said ICE could have gotten a warrant or court request to keep Sanchez in custody.
"ICE knew where he was," Mirkarimi said Monday.
BLM spokeswoman Dan Wilson said the weapon was issued to an organization officer and was stolen from the operators' auto while he was in San Francisco on business.
Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez, who has been expelled to his local Mexico five times and is suspected of living in the United States wrongfully, told television news stations he discovered the weapon on the wharf and it incidentally shot. He argued not blameworthy Tuesday to murder charges in Kathryn Steinle's passing.
Steinle, 32, was gunned down last week while strolling with her dad along San Francisco's well known waterfront zone.
Government officials transferred Sanchez to San Francisco's penitentiary in March to face a 20-year-old pot charge after he finished his latest prison term for entering the nation unlawfully.
The San Francisco sheriff, refering to the city's "sanctuary city" arrangement, released Sanchez in April after prosecutors dropped the medication charge, despite an Immigration and Customs Enforcement request to hold him for government authorities so expulsion proceedings could start.
He told two television stations who talked with him in prison that he discovered the firearm used in Steinle's slaughtering wrapped in a shirt on the pedestrian wharf she was strolling on. Sanchez said the weapon went off in his hands, and his open guard, Matt Gonzalez, said Tuesday that the San Francisco lady's demise seemed unplanned.
The shooting has touched off criticism from driving Republican lawmakers and from top Democrats, including California's U.S. senators.
Vote based presidential applicant Hillary Clinton told CNN that San Francisco was inappropriate to overlook the ICE detainer request and release Sanchez from custody.
"The city committed an error not to extradite someone that the government strongly felt should be expelled," Clinton said.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein approached San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to start chipping in with government migration officials who need to extradite felons such as Sanchez.
"I strongly accept that an undocumented individual, sentenced numerous felonies and with a detainer request from ICE, should not have been released," Feinstein said.
The chairman's office said it has connected with Homeland Security officials to figure out whether there's an approach to collaborate while still maintaining the city's sanctuary arrangement.
Sen. Barbara Boxer said she asked Gov. Jerry Brown if state law was followed in Sanchez's release.
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has guarded Sanchez's release and the city law obliging his office to overlook ICE detainer requests. The sheriff said ICE could have gotten a warrant or court request to keep Sanchez in custody.
"ICE knew where he was," Mirkarimi said Monday.
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