‘Somebody else is going to be on the hook, and soon’
Investigators say the killer of Kate Steinle – the 32-year-old woman who was walking on a San Francisco pier with her father when an illegal immigrant allegedly shot her in broad daylight – used a gun that belonged to a federal agent.
Fox News reported the gun had been stolen from a law enforcement officer in June.
“It may mean that somebody else is going to be on the hook, and soon,” said CNN’s legal analyst Danny Cevallos.
Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal immigrant with a felony record who had been deported to Mexico five times – and who told police he was in San Francisco because it was a sanctuary city and he knew he wouldn’t be deported – confessed to killing Steinle, various media reported.
He also said he found the gun wrapped in a T-shirt on the ground, CNN reported.
“So I picked it up and … it started to fire on its own,” Sanchez said, adding that he heard three shots go off.
Sanchez pleaded not guilty during a Tuesday court hearing to murder and weapons charges. The court set his bail at $5 million.
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