SAN FRANCISCO: Police Release Video Of Suspect In Murder Of Gay Man

Castro Biscuit reports:

The San Francisco Police Department has released a video depicting a “person of interest” in the Feather Lynn/Bryan Higgins homicide case we reported on last week. The video below shows a man in a dark gray hoodie which gets taken off at one point to reveal a red hoodie. Many news outlets last week had conflicting reports on the color of the hoodie of the person suspected to be involved in the death of Feather. The first part of the video was captured from a taxi dash cam and shows the man wanted for questioning “chasing” Feather (blacked out in the video) across Church Street in front of the cab near Duboce Avenue. Video was taken August 10th, the same day as the attack on Feather. If you have any information about this man please contact the SFPD at 415-575-4444 or text TIP411 with “SFPD” at the start of the message.

My first report on the murder is here.

SAN FRANCISCO: Police Ask For Help In Brutal Pink Saturday Attack

Via the Mercury News:

Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man that brutally beat and helped rob a woman and may have attacked others early Sunday after the city's "Pink Saturday" Pride weekend event. The attack is not believed to have been a hate crime, police said. Around 1:50 a.m., the woman was approached by a group of men and women along Market Street between Castro Street and Civic Center, according to San Francisco police. The group pushed the woman to the ground and took unspecified belongings. In a video provided by police, the woman struggles to stand up as the group walks away. As one man passes her, he turns and viciously kicks her in the face. Police said the kick left the woman, who lives in the Central Valley, unconscious; she was recovering at her home Friday night, according to San Francisco police Ofc. Albie Esparza.

The SFPD posted the below clip to their YouTube channel last night. You may not want to watch this. Contact information for the detectives assigned to the case is here.

(Tipped by JMG readers Moss, Jonathan, and Jim)