"The accused stabber in last month's fatal attack on a UCSF social worker at SF General Hospital finally had a court appearance Tuesday, pleading not guilty, with his attorney saying he was suffering a mental health crisis that day. We're just now beginning legal proceedings in the case of the UCSF social worker who was stabbed and killed at SF General Hospital at the hospital's HIV Ward 86 on December 4."
"That 51-year-old social worker Alberto Rangel died three days later, and the accused stabber, 34-year-old Wilfredo Tortolero-Arriechi, has been charged with murder. The whole tragedy has set off a separate controversy about safety at the hospital, particularly with regards to the suspect Tortolero-Arriechi, who had been seemingly stalking a certain other doctor (not the victim Alberto Rangel) at another medical facility earlier in the day, and who happened to bring a five-inch kitchen knife to the hospital."
On December 4 a 51-year-old UCSF social worker, Alberto Rangel, was stabbed at SF General Hospital's HIV Ward 86 and died three days later. The accused, 34-year-old Wilfredo Tortolero-Arriechi, has been charged with murder and pleaded not guilty at a court appearance. His attorney said he was suffering a mental health crisis that day. Tortolero-Arriechi was detained at SF General because the SF County Jail psych ward is located there and took almost three weeks to stabilize before arraignment. Ward 86 staffers reported that he fixated on and stalked another doctor and confronted that doctor earlier the same day, bringing a five-inch kitchen knife. The incident raised concerns about hospital safety.
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