- David DePape allegedly ignored safety cameras and 911 name to combat ‘tyranny.’
- Paul Pelosi known as 911 as DePape watched and law enforcement officials arrived inside minutes.
- DePape faces 13 years to life in jail if convicted of state expenses together with tried homicide.
- Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated Paul Pelosi was launched from the hospital Thursday.
Paul Pelosi awoke twice within the early hours of Oct. 28. The primary time he groggily found a hammer-wielding intruder in his bed room asking for his wife, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The second time, he regained consciousness in a pool of his personal blood, having suffered a fractured skull grappling with the assailant in entrance of police.
State and federal prosecutors who charged the suspect – David DePape, 42, of Richmond, California – with trying to homicide Paul Pelosi stated he was on a suicide mission, threatening to kneecap Nancy Pelosi and search out different unspecified public officers, based on court docket paperwork.
“It’s definitely one thing that has unnerved us all,” San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told reporters of the attack, referring to tragedies with previous political leaders such because the 1978 assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and metropolis Supervisor Harvey Milk. “It’s one thing we now have to take very severely.”
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DePape, who’s being held on the San Francisco County Jail, faces 13 years to life in jail if convicted of state expenses together with tried homicide, housebreaking and elder abuse. He has pleaded not guilty and has a listening to scheduled for Friday. Federal prosecutors charged him with assault on a relative of a federal official and tried kidnapping of a federal official.
Paul Pelosi was released from the hospital Thursday.
Here’s what we all know concerning the assault that started simply after 2 a.m., from court docket information and information conferences, as authorities piece collectively police reviews, video from body-worn cameras, a recording of the 911 name and different proof:
A break-in, a startling wake-up after which a query: ‘The place’s Nancy?’
DePape allegedly stated he knew he can be caught on Ring security cameras positioned around the exterior of the Pacific Heights house. However he was shocked to seek out Paul Pelosi, 82, nonetheless asleep after the noise he made smashing the window of a glass door to get inside.
Pelosi, who was sleeping in a pajama high and boxer shorts, startled awake to seek out DePape allegedly standing over him with a hammer in his proper hand and several other white zip ties in his left hand.
“Are you Paul Pelosi?” DePape allegedly requested. “The place’s Nancy? The place’s Nancy?”
Pelosi responded groggily after being woke up. “She’s not right here,” he stated.
“Properly, when is she coming again?” DePape requested.
“She’s in Washington, she’s not going to be again for a few days,” Pelosi stated.
DePape then threatened to tie up Paul Pelosi about 10 occasions.
“OK, effectively, I’m going to tie you up,” DePape stated.
Paul Pelosi stood up and tried to go away by an elevator close to the bed room, however DePape held the door and prevented his escape. DePape later informed police he blocked the door as a result of he thought it led to a secure room.
Pelosi then sat again down on the mattress and requested why DePape needed to see his spouse.
“Properly, she’s No. 2 in line for the presidency, proper?” DePape allegedly stated. “We’ve acquired to take all of them out.”
Pelosi requested if he may name anybody for DePape, however he allegedly “ominously responded that it was the tip of the highway for Mr. Pelosi.”
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‘Uh, I’ve acquired an issue’: Paul Pelosi calls 911 with DePape watching
Pelosi then requested to make use of the toilet, which DePape allowed. Pelosi’s cellphone was charging within the lavatory, so he turned it on and known as 911 at 2:23 a.m. and put the telephone on its speaker operate.
DePape later informed police he knew the decision was being recorded however felt Pelosi had pushed him right into a nook by making the decision. DePape watched him from about 3 ft away whereas nonetheless holding the hammer and zip ties. In the course of the name, Pelosi defined to the dispatcher a person was ready for Nancy Pelosi to come back again, however that she wouldn’t be again for a few day. DePape gestured and informed Pelosi to get off the telephone.
To defuse the scenario, Paul Pelosi informed the dispatcher that he didn’t want police, hearth, or medical help. However Pelosi then requested for Capitol Police as a result of they’re normally on the home defending his spouse. The San Francisco police dispatcher, Heather Grives, stated he known as metropolis police and Pelosi stated he understood.
“I don’t know, what do you assume?” Pelosi requested DePape. One other man was heard responding: “Every part’s good.”
“Uh, he thinks all the pieces’s good,” Pelosi informed Grives. “Uh, I’ve acquired an issue, however he thinks all the pieces’s good.”
The dispatcher informed Pelosi to name again if he modified his thoughts.
“No, no, no, this gentleman simply uh got here into the home uh and he desires to attend for my spouse to come back residence,” Pelosi stated.
The dispatcher requested if Pelosi knew the person and he stated he didn’t. The dispatcher then requested for Pelosi’s identify and tackle, which Pelosi gave him. DePape then informed him to place the telephone down.
The dispatcher requested for the person’s identify and he replied, “My identify is David.” When the dispatcher asked who David is, Paul Pelosi stated he didn’t know.
“I’m a buddy of theirs,” DePape stated.
However Pelosi stated once more he didn’t know the person.
“No, he desires me to get the hell off the telephone,” Pelosi stated.
The dispatcher provided to remain on the road however despatched law enforcement officials to the home when the intruder compelled Pelosi to hold up. The dispatcher issued an “A” precedence well-being examine.
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‘I can take you out’: Pelosi and DePape go downstairs, a battle happens, then police arrive
After the decision, DePape stated he was drained and wanted to sleep. However he additionally stated he had a backpack downstairs with “a complete bunch of stuff inside,” based on court docket information.
DePape walked behind Pelosi as they headed downstairs. Turning on the lights, Pelosi may see the place DePape entered the home. DePape allegedly stated he needed to bash home windows within the glass door a number of occasions to interrupt by means of.
DePape stated the police can be there any minute. Pelosi tried to calm him down by saying they wouldn’t.
“I can take you out,” DePape stated.
DePape got here round Pelosi with the hammer in his proper hand. Pelosi, who feared DePape would strike him, grabbed the hammer’s deal with.
At 2:31 a.m. – about two minutes after the 911 name ended – Police Officers Kolby Wilmes and Kyle Cagney arrived on the home. Wilmes rang the doorbell, however DePape informed Pelosi to not open it.
Pelosi opened the door along with his left hand. Within the dimly lit lobby, Pelosi nervously however calmly greeted the officers.
“Every part’s good,” DePape replied, when the officers requested what was occurring.
When an officer turned on his flashlight, police may see DePape was holding the hammer with one hand and Pelosi’s proper arm with the opposite. Pelosi had his hand on the highest of the hammer.
“Drop the hammer!” one officer stated.
“Um, nope,” DePape allegedly replied, and raised the hammer. DePape allegedly then tried to tug the hammer away from Pelosi and wrenched his proper arm.
On the identical time, Pelosi stated: “Hey, hey, hey.” However he couldn’t preserve his grip on the hammer.
“What’s going on right here?” an officer requested.
DePape allegedly wrestled the hammer away from Pelosi, stepped again and lunged for Pelosi, placing him within the head with full drive.
The blow knocked Pelosi unconscious. The 2 officers rushed into the home and tackled DePape and disarmed him.
Pelosi remained unresponsive for about three minutes. He awoke in a pool of his personal blood.
“The suspect pulled the hammer away from Mr. Pelosi and violently assaulted him with it,” San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott told reporters. “Our officers instantly tackled the suspect, disarmed him, took him into custody, requested emergency backup and rendered medical assist.”
Hearth Division medics took Pelosi to San Francisco Basic Hospital, the place he had surgical procedure for a cranium fracture and critical accidents to his proper arm and fingers.
San Francisco Police Officer Ariane Starks interviewed Pelosi within the ambulance on the way in which to the hospital. Pelosi stated he didn’t know DePape. In one other interview two days later, Paul Pelosi stated the hammer didn’t belong to his household.
DePape’s lawyer, deputy public defender Adam Lipson, informed reporters after a detention listening to the suspect suffered a dislocated shoulder “throughout his arrest.”
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DePape ‘got here right here to have a bit of chat’ with Nancy Pelosi
As soon as the scuffle ended, San Francisco Law enforcement officials requested if anybody else was in the home. DePape allegedly stated he acted alone. He appeared on the glass door and allegedly stated that was the place he broke in. The laminated glass was damaged close to the door deal with.
Police discovered a cellphone, money, “clipper” playing cards for San Francisco’s transit system and an unidentified card from the precise pocket of DePape’s shorts. After they requested for his identification, he allegedly stated it is likely to be in his backpack on the again porch, close to the damaged door.
Within the backpack, police discovered a second hammer, a laptop computer and extra baggage of zip ties. The backpack additionally contained a journal, roll of tape, white rope and two pairs of gloves, one rubber and one material. A day later, through the search of a Richmond storage the place DePape was staying, FBI brokers seized two hammers, a sword, motorized vehicle paperwork, IRS letters and Paypal bank cards.
DePape allegedly defined to officers and medics on the scene what he tried to perform.
“I’m sick of the insane f—— stage of lies popping out of Washington, D.C.,” DePape stated. “I got here right here to have a bit of chat along with his spouse.”
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DePape allegedly admitted he meant to take Nancy Pelosi hostage and “break her kneecaps” if she “lied” to him. Then she may very well be “wheeled into Congress, which might present different members of Congress there have been penalties to actions,” based on court docket information.
DePape stated hurting Paul Pelosi wasn’t his purpose.
“I didn’t actually wish to damage him, however you already know this was a suicide mission,” DePape allegedly added. “I’m not going to face right here and do nothing even when it price me my life.”
“I informed him earlier than I attacked him, that he’s escalating issues and I’ll undergo him if I’ve to,” DePape allegedly stated.
Whereas chatting within the bed room, DePape allegedly informed Pelosi he couldn’t be stopped as a result of he had different targets. DePape later allegedly informed police his targets included an area professor, a number of distinguished state and federal politicians and family of these officers.
“There has additionally been plenty of hypothesis relating to Mr. DePape’s vulnerability to misinformation,” stated Lipson, his lawyer. “That’s definitely one thing we’re going to look into, that we’re going to delve into, as his protection workforce.”
Scott, the police chief, stated the division is working with Capitol Police to make the home safer.
“This has shaken lots of people,” he stated.
DePape allegedly defined to investigators why he didn’t go away after Paul Pelosi known as 911. FBI Particular Agent Stephanie Minor stated DePape in contrast his efforts to “the American founding fathers with the British, he was combating in opposition to tyranny with out the choice of give up.”
