#ward-86

#ward-86

Multiple social media accounts for Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi, the 35-year-old man accused of stabbing a San Francisco General Hospital social worker to death in early December, show an apparent mental unraveling in the days and weeks before the killing. Tortolero Arriechi's posts before he allegedly stabbed social worker Alberto Rangel on Dec. 4. included incoherent ramblings about sexuality, depression, and missing his family in Venezuela.

Tortolero Arriechi, 34, was known to hospital staff and a regular patient at Ward 86, the hospital's HIV clinic, where the stabbing took place, according to an eyewitness to the stabbing. He was allegedly a known and feared presence at the clinic. "This could have been avoided on so many fucking levels," the eyewitness told Mission Local. "We knew three weeks ago about this patient."