Arrest made in connection to SF home explosion; police report details new clues found in debris

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — An arrest has been made in the home explosion that occurred yesterday in San Francisco’s Outer Sundown neighborhood, based on regulation enforcement.

Darren Worth, a 53-year-old resident, was booked for manslaughter, manufacturing medication and two counts of kid endangerment.

Neighbors continued to wash up their houses Friday night following the lethal explosion.

“The extent of the glass that was in the home was unbelievable. We picked up two rubbish cans of glass and we’re nonetheless selecting up glass,” stated Jack Noriega.

However whereas residents are piecing collectively their lives, investigators are connecting the dots on what really occurred right here.

A partial police report obtained by ABC7 Information anchor Dion Lim sheds mild on a few of what we all know thus far.

Based on a sufferer’s assertion, it says a pair occupied the home together with their two kids, who have been at college on the time.

The lady was disabled and was typically assisted by a caretaker, who was within the basement doing laundry when the explosion occurred.

The report says the caretaker was in a position to make it out alive, though she did maintain main accidents and is being handled at a neighborhood hospital.

It isn’t identified the place the person was on the time of the incident or the place the kids are actually.

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The lady is considered the one who has died.

“She did not don’t have any legs. Her arms have been up like this. The physique was fully charred,” Noriega stated.

Those that stay close by describe the pair as being very non-public and preserving nearly solely to themselves.

The incident report additionally lays out conversations authorities had with neighbors.

One stated they smelled marijuana coming from the home and recalled seeing the person hanging a plastic tarp over one among couple’s doorways.

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The report additionally said that narcotics have been discovered inside the house, together with wiring and a few unknown substance.

On Friday morning, the ABC7 Information group noticed authorities eradicating canisters from what’s left of the house.

We later discovered that these canisters had a connection to the Daly Metropolis BART station being shut down for a number of hours through the day, after one of many canisters started to leak.

“One of many gadgets that was being transported began to hiss. The motive force of the car pulled over, referred to as 911,” stated Captain Jonathan Baxter of the San Francisco Fireplace Division.

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