Another body found in San Francisco General hallway

Police investigating another unexplained death of a woman on the grounds of San Francisco General Hospital


Police are investigating another unexplained death of a woman on the grounds of San Francisco General Hospital, according to an article on the NBC Bay Area  website.

The discovery comes one week after a 75-year-old woman's body was found in the stairwell of an engineering building on the hospital grounds.

The second woman was being held on a 72-hour psychiatric evaluation hold before she was found dead. 

Sources say she was being treated on a bed in a hallway. SFPD homicide investigators and the medical examiner’s office are trying to determine why she died. The woman, who was in her 40s, has not been publicly identified.

Read the article.

 

 



June 12, 2018


Topic Area: Security


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