Man who Fled Traffic Stop Remains in Second-Story Window Threatening to Jump

A man who ran from a California Highway Patrol traffic stop remained dangling from a two-story building, threatening to jump, in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood early Wednesday evening.

As of about 5:45 p.m. the man had been dangling from a window of the building on 10th Street near Harrison Street for about three hours.

He was driving a white Toyota Highlander when a CHP officer pulled him over at 2:41 p.m. around the corner on Dore Street, but while the officer was taking down information, the man ran from the stop, according to CHP
Officer Vu Williams.

Officers later learned that the Highlander had been reported stolen, Williams said.

The driver jumped a fence and into the two-story building on 10th Street near Harrison. He emerged from a second-story window, where he remains perched shirtless, barefoot and threatening to jump.

Police shut down 10th Street and have climbed the fire escape and are trying to talk the man down, according to San Francisco police. They have set up large foam mats on the ground and are pointing less than lethal
projectiles at him.

Police spokeswoman Officer Grace Gatpandan said he might be in an “altered state.”

A large crowd has gathered in the area as the standoff continues this evening.

--Bay City News Service