Around 3:30am on Thursday morning, a car pulled into the Chevron gas station at 24th & Geary to attend to a flat tire. The two men in the vehicle began a conversation with an older man, 40 to 50 years old, that was loitering in the station.
After about 20 minutes of conversation, the older man collapsed. The car’s passenger exited the vehicle and asked the attendant to call 911 to help the man.
Then things got very strange. The driver in the car, in what appeared to be an attempt to leave the station, put his car in reverse and proceeded to run over the older man, pinning him under his back tire.
Police and fire responded, and had to jack up the rear end of the car to free the man’s head from under the tire. He was trapped under the car for approximately five to ten minutes.
The victim was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with severe head wounds. He remains in critical condition but is expected to survive.
The driver was taken into custody and will be interviewed to determine if alcohol was a factor in the incident. The passenger is also being detained for questioning.
The Chevron station has also provided the police with surveillance video from the incident.
UPDATE 2:15pm 5-29-14: In the May 29 police blotter, Richmond station reported that the older victim was intoxicated. “There was a male in the gas station who was intoxicated and stumbling around.”
Sarah B.
I was wondering why the news crews were there this morning at 8:30 or so. I saw a reporter talking on air with the Chevron in the background but had no idea what was going on.
This sounds like that one Sopranos episode.