Man Hurled Homophobic Slurs, Threatened To Kill Hospital Worker In SF: DA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A man who spewed homophobic slurs at a hospital worker before threatening to kill him and everyone in the building earlier this year has been charged with making criminal threats.

Kahiviano Casperson, 52, was on supervised parole for a second-degree robbery and on court probation for a recent vandalism conviction when he made the threats during two separate visits to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, authorities said.

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Casperson was at the hospital on April 4, when he suddenly started verbally abusing a healthcare worker, according to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.

The worker asked for help with Casperson, who was told to sit in the waiting room. Casperson refused, prosecutors said, and called the worker a homophobic slur several times before saying he didn't like gay people and that he was going to follow the worker to his car and kill him.

Nothing transpired that day. But Casperson returned to the hospital on June 8 and continued to threaten the worker, prosecutors said.

Casperson, waiving an umbrella around aggressively, was told to leave, prosecutors said. As he left, he said: "I will bring my gun and shoot all the f****** at the hospital," and that he would wait for the healthcare worker in the parking garage to attack them, prosecutors said.

Casperson left the inside of the hospital but remained outside the entrance where he continued making threats and swinging the umbrella, prosecutors said.

On Wednesday, prosecutors announced they had filed three counts of making criminal threats against Casperson. He was also charged with one count of stalking, prosecutors said.

Zuckerberg Hospital was recently fined for serious safety violations after a social worker was fatally stabbed last year.