Suspect indicted on federal charges in attack on Pelosi’s husband

Nov 9 (Reuters) – A person accused of attacking U.S. Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer on the couple’s San Francisco residence was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday on tried kidnapping and assault costs.

David Wayne DePape, 42, had already confronted the identical costs below a prison criticism filed in U.S. District Courtroom for Northern California.

State prosecutors have charged him with tried homicide, assault with a lethal weapon, housebreaking, elder abuse, false imprisonment and threatening a public official.

DePape was arrested on Oct. 28 after he allegedly pressured his approach into the house, demanded to see Nancy Pelosi after which clubbed her husband, Paul, within the head with a hammer.

Paul Pelosi, 82, an actual property and enterprise capital government, was launched final week from the hospital the place he underwent surgical procedure for his accidents.

Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat who’s second within the line of succession to the presidency, was in Washington on the time.

Reporting by Chris Gallagher and Dan Whitcomb; Modifying by Sandra Maler

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