Neighbors react to arrest of suspect, recount day of deadly SF house explosion

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — We’re studying extra in regards to the lethal home explosion and hearth that rocked a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco’s Outer Sundown district this week.

One particular person inside the house was discovered lifeless, whereas one other resident was arrested — booked for manslaughter, little one endangerment and manufacturing medicine.

“It is a quiet neighborhood. Individuals are good. And in the midst of the road, you’ve got this man who’s doing one thing illegally,” stated neighbor Karen Lei.

Lei spoke to ABC7 Information from the second-floor window of her red-tagged residence on twenty second Avenue, which is subsequent door to the home that exploded Thursday morning.

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Police say a narcotics lab was being operated inside the house. The suspect, 53-year-old Darron Worth, was arrested on Friday.

“That is the best factor to do, as a result of he is very harmful — inflicting property damages and disrupting folks’s lives,” Lei stated.

“The suspect we arrested, Darron Worth, we imagine that was his main residence,” stated SFPD officer Robert Rueca.

“He by no means launched his household,” stated neighbor Albert Ng.

Neighbors say Worth lived on the home together with his household. Though the 2 younger kids weren’t residence on the time of the explosion, neighbors say Worth’s disabled spouse and caregiver had been inside.

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Ng stated that after the explosion, the frantic, injured caregiver requested him to name 911.

“She ran throughout the road and advised me to assist, any person’s inside,” Ng stated.

The physique of a girl was later discovered contained in the rubble. First responders had been seen eradicating tanks and canisters from the home that had been crammed with unknown substances.

The large explosion rocked the neighborhood, blowing doorways off hinges and shattering home windows.

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Jerry Kwan was nonetheless cleansing up shattered glass from his mother’s home 5 doorways down.

“I discover it wonderful it may occur in a residential space so quiet,” Kwan stated.

Neighbors say they by no means suspected something uncommon was taking place inside the house.

“I do know folks say, you lived subsequent door, however I am telling you they by no means invited us to something. You simply do not know what’s taking place inside folks’s properties,” Lei stated.

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