Man charged for making threats against San Francisco schools, court documents show

"The San Francisco District Attorney's Office says the first threats occurred on May 11, 2026, against a primary school in the city's Pacific Heights neighborhood. The suspect is accused of posting a message describing "shooting people" on one of the school's social media pages. The next evening, that same suspect allegedly showed up at another primary school in the Richmond neighborhood and made "grave threats to the people in the school building.""

"The following morning, on May 13, the suspect returned to that same school and made similar grave threats while students and teachers were on campus, briefly putting the school on lockdown. According to the D.A.'s office, later that day, SFPD officers were able to detain the suspect."

"Court documents obtained by ABC7 News confirm that the suspect has a long history of making criminal threats against businesses, schools, religious institutions and individuals in San Francisco for over a decade. An internal email shared to the community of one of the threatened schools states that the suspect began making threats back in 2011. Since then, he's been arrested, sentenced and imprisoned multiple times."

""If you have an individual who's consistently showing up to schools, making threats to children, at staff, there is nothing more frightening. There is nothing more precious to me than my children, as I know you know, to any parent, for their children. And, I don't think, as parents, we're asking for a lot to ask somebody who's consistently threatening people to be taken off the streets," Sherrill sai"

A 41-year-old man was charged with multiple felonies for threats made against several San Francisco schools. The first threats occurred May 11, 2026, targeting a primary school in Pacific Heights through a social media post describing “shooting people.” On May 12, the suspect allegedly appeared at a primary school in Richmond and made “grave threats” to people inside the building. On May 13, the suspect returned to the same school and made similar threats while students and teachers were on campus, briefly triggering a lockdown. Later that day, SFPD officers detained the suspect. Court records indicate a long history of criminal threats against businesses, schools, religious institutions, and individuals for over a decade, with prior arrests, sentences, and imprisonment.

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