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   A man was arrested Wednesday in San Francisco after a morning   
   hit-and-run crash killed one person and injured four others in   
   the Dogpatch neighborhood, police said.   
      
   But the circumstances of the case remained murky, with police   
   saying that the driver “struck five subjects with his vehicle”   
   after a dispute and fight in the street.   
      
   One man hit by the vehicle died from his injuries at noon, said   
   Brent Andrew, a San Francisco General Hospital spokesman. Three   
   of the injured were in serious condition and another in fair   
   condition, Andrew said.   
      
   Police said the driver, who was not identified, barreled into   
   the pedestrians at about 10:30 a.m. near Illinois and 24th   
   streets.   
      
   Sources familiar with the investigation told The Chronicle that   
   police are investigating whether the victims were hit after they   
   tried to break into the driver’s vehicle. But a man who   
   witnessed the incident said the driver was clearly the aggressor.   
      
   he industrial area where the incident took place was listed as a   
   hot spot for auto burglaries in a recent Chronicle investigation.   
      
   Officer Robert Rueca, a San Francisco police spokesman,   
   confirmed the arrest but said he was not aware of an auto   
   burglary being connected to the hit-and-run.   
      
   The vehicle was traveling north on Illinois when it hit the five   
   people on the sidewalk, according to police radio   
   communications. At one point during the incident, the driver   
   reportedly got out of the vehicle carrying an ax.   
      
   “There is a major incident going on at 24th and Illinois,” a   
   dispatcher said. “Suspect with an ax, probably some people   
   already dead.”   
      
   Police officers converged on the scene and blocked off the roads.   
      
   A man who said he had been walking his dog 25 feet from the   
   crash, and declined to be identified, said the driver yelled at   
   the other men and repeatedly used a homophobic slur.   
      
   “They literally said, ‘Hey, how you doing?’” the witness said.   
   “This guy (the driver) is crazy as can be. He goes off and just   
   starts yelling.”   
      
   The dog-walker said that after the driver took an ax out of the   
   vehicle, the men fought him off by hitting him with a belt   
   before taking the ax away and chasing him back to the van.   
      
   The group continued walking on the sidewalk, the witness said.   
   The driver swore and angrily started the vehicle too quickly, he   
   said, killing the engine. The five men laughed, the witness said.   
      
   He said the driver started the car again and made a three-point   
   turn.   
      
   “Guy goes full throttle and plows them down,” the witness said.   
   “Totally brutal.”   
      
   https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Hit-and-run-in-San-   
   Francisco-leaves-4-with-12788324.php   
      
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