Up to 14 hurt in SF hit-and-run spree

SFGATE ^ | 8/29/06 | Jackson Van Derbeken

[SF Republican]

(08-29) 15:20 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested, authorities said.

Seven of those injured were in critical condition, police and firefighters said.

Authorities have identified the man who was arrested as Ohmeed Aziz Popal, who has an address in Ceres.

Authorities said they believe Popal was the same driver who ran over a 55-year-old man walking in a bicycle lane in Fremont, at Fremont Boulevard near Ferry Lane, just after noon. That victim died.

Popal was arrested at a Walgreens at Spruce and California streets.

[SF Republican]

Crazy guy even by SF standards.

[ConservativeMan55]

"Ohmeed Aziz Popal"

Religion of Peace strikes again?

[ichabodcrane]

but this was not terrorism. That's for sure. Nothing to see here.

[rickmichaels]

Ohmeed Aziz Popal

ROP member?

[Shermy]

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- A Fremont man is in custody after police say he drove his SUV into numerous pedestrians in San Francisco Tuesday afternoon.

The Associated Press says the vehicle involved is registered to Omeed A. Popal of Fremont. San Francisco Police spokesman Neville Gittings says the spree started at Sutter and Webster. Witnesses say the SUV appeared to intentionally target pedestrians and people on bicycles.

Paramedics took at least eleven people to area hospitals. Investigators say it appears other victims may have walked themselves to the emergency room. There are at least a dozen different accident locations including:

Sutter at Webster
Bush at Divisidero
Sutter at Steiner
California at Laurel
California at Fillmore
Fillmore at Pine
Bush at Pierce
1850 Fillmore
Filmorre at Bush
Spruce at California
3250 California.
Gittings says San Francisco Police are talking with Fremont police about another hit and run accident reported Tuesday morning in the East Bay community. The victim in that wreck has died. Police are looking into possible connections between the two sets of crimes.

Three people in San Francisco suffered life-threatening injuries. They were all taken to San Francisco General Hospital.

KRON 4 has numerous video journalists covering this developing story. Tune in for complete coverage throughout the day and evening
http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?S=5341340

[goldstategop]

Let's see: a crazed loner. But you won't see this described as an act of domestic terrorism. Count on it.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[jdm]

Authorities said they believe Popal was the same driver who ran over a 55-year-old man walking in a bicycle lane in Fremont, at Fremont Boulevard near Ferry Lane, just after noon. That victim died."

So he's a murderer, too. And yet the SF paper leaves that detail out of the headline.

[dcrider182]

huh.. Well since the people of SF decided that a gun ban would get ride of all the violence...

...it SHOULD be just a matter of days until they ban cars as well.. next step.. get rid of the bridges; so as to has less suicide..

yeah SF.. good job "keeping people safer..

idiots

[Libertarian4Bush]

SOUNDS IRISH TO ME KAY THANKS

[pissant]

Stinking terrorists. Shoot the bastard without a trial.

[npg]

Well, he was in an SUV.

[Azzurri]

Eliseo Billones Jr., 24, a canvasser for Greenpeace, was standing on the corner when Aglugov was hit. "He was going berserk," Billones said of the driver. "It was a red light and he just ran the red light. I saw him (Aglugov) hit the corner of the bumper and tumble.''

Shocking. Not that they found a canvassar for Greenpeace in San Francisco, but that he didn't mention the word "Neo-con" when speaking of the driver.

[teacherwoes]

Reasons the driver isn't guilty:

1)He was driving an SUV; therefore, it's the SUV's fault.
2)He was driving on Bush street; therefore it's Bush's fault (sarc)

[School of Rational Thought]

What is needed is some common sense assault vehichle control laws.

[cripplecreek]

Clip clop clip clop clip clop rattle bang clatter clip clop clip clop clip clop

(Amish hit and run)

[1rudeboy]

Back in the day, "terrorism" used to mean organized. I don't think the distinction applies any longer.

[npg]

let's add this one to the list

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL!!!

Must have been those darn baptists again...

/sarcasm

[Dane]

Shocking. Not that they found a canvassar for Greenpeace in San Francisco, but that he didn't mention the word "Neo-con" when speaking of the driver.

LOL! We will know for certain that hell has frozen over when pat buchanan does the same thing.

[dead]

I believe his name is Afghan in origin.