San Francisco homicide: Suspect caught 3 months later by police on patrol

The 32-year-old man was wanted in connection with an assault Aug. 16 in the South of Market neighborhood.

The suspect in an August homicide in San Francisco was arrested Sunday after being spotted by officers on patrol, the police said.

The 32-year-old man was wanted in connection with a fatal assault Aug. 16 in the South of Market neighborhood. Officers had been called shortly before 4 a.m. that day to Rausch and Howard streets, where they found a 25-year-old man with unspecified injuries that the police report described as life-threatening. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

On the morning of Nov. 12, officers on the 100 block of Larkin Street, next to City Hall, saw a man matching the suspect description from the investigators’ bulletin. He was detained and arrested on suspicion of homicide.