Paul Pelosi, husband of Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), suffered a violent bodily assault within the early hours of Friday morning, Oct. 28. The suspect within the assault, recognized by police as 42-year-old David DePape, broke into the Pelosis’ San Francisco residence, the place he confronted Mr. Pelosi. Each males had been taken to the hospital. Nancy Pelosi’s husband, who’s 82, was reportedly handled for blunt power accidents to his head and physique. DePape faces a number of felony costs.
Particulars are nonetheless rising and no motive for the assault has been established. The intruder allegedly demanded, “The place is Nancy?” when he got here throughout the speaker’s husband. San Francisco police arrived on the scene moments later to seek out DePape and Pelosi struggling for management of a hammer. DePape managed to grab the hammer from Pelosi and proceeded to strike him earlier than being disarmed by cops.
Drew Hammill, a Pelosi spokesman, mentioned that Paul Pelosi is “receiving glorious medical care and is anticipated to make a full restoration.” Nancy Pelosi was in Washington, DC, on the time of the break-in.
The Pelosi property, within the unique Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, was the goal of vandalism in 2021. A storage was defaced with graffiti demanding “UBI!” – assumed to imply common fundamental earnings. The suspects additionally left a pig’s head on the sidewalk exterior the residence, in line with the San Francisco Police Division.
DePape is dealing with costs of tried murder, assault with a lethal weapon, elder abuse, housebreaking, and “a number of different extra felonies,” in line with San Francisco Police Chief William Scott.