S.F. man allegedly decapitated his grandma
A 30-year-old San Francisco man decapitated his grandmother inside her home in a senior living facility in the city’s South of Market neighborhood, sources said Thursday.
Andrew Luke was arrested at the scene Wednesday after allegedly killing 82-year-old Chii-Chyu Horng inside her residence at 801 Howard St., officials said.
Luke was charged on Thursday with murder and elder abuse.
Several sources with knowledge of the investigation said Luke had cut off Horng’s head. A spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department would not confirm the details of the slaying or name the suspect, only saying that he “is a family member of the victim.”
Police made the gruesome discovery after responding to a welfare check around 12:25 a.m. Wednesday.
Luke was taken to a hospital for a medical evaluation. A date for his arraignment has not been set.
In an interview with The Chronicle on Thursday, Luke’s ex-stepmother, Eva Fok, said Horng raised Luke after his mother died of
A headless body found decomposing inside a fish tank last month in a home in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood was identified Thursday as missing 65-year-old city resident Brian Egg.
The San Francisco medical examiner confirmed Egg’s identity by using DNA from his relatives. The official identification confirmed what friends and family members had long feared since police made the grisly discovery.
Forensic pathologists are still trying to determine a cause and manner of death to figure out whether Egg was killed before his body was dismembered.
Two suspects were arrested shortly after his body was discovered Aug. 17 in a slurry of water and household chemicals inside his home at 228 Clara St. Egg’s hands were also removed and missing, authorities said.
The suspects, Lance Silva, 39, and Robert MacCaffrey, 52, were not immediately charged, pending the medical examiner’s report.
MacCaffrey was released and Silva was transferred to Alameda County where his probation for a separate grand theft case was revoked. He is currently in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.
Police found Egg’s body after a missing person report was filed by a family member who had not heard from him in weeks.
Neighbors called police numerous times in the weeks before the body was discovered, reporting that Egg was nowhere to be seen and suspicious people were coming and going from his residence.
Police visited the home on three separate occasions in late July and early August, but no one answered the door so officers left.
On Aug. 14, a hazardous materials cleanup crew showed up at the home, prompting neighbors to call 911. Police arrived and obtained a search warrant and found the body in the early morning hours of Aug. 17.
Police arrested MacCaffrey at the home.
Investigators took Silva into custody Aug. 16 at a motel on Sixth Street in San Francisco, where they recovered Egg’s debit card.
Alameda County prosecutors said Silva used the debit card to purchase a 2007 BMW 750 in Newark on June 1 for $5,500.
The identification confirmed what friends and family members had long feared.