Vigil at SF General Hospital for Slain Social Worker Amplifies Concerns About Hospital Safety

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/12/08/vigil-at-sf-general-hospital-for-slain-social-worker-amplifies-concerns-about-hospital-safety/After Saturday’s news that a 51-year-old social worker had died from a violent stabbing attack by a patient at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital last week, the victim’s coworkers held a Sunday night vigil to sound the alarm about security at the hospital. The story of a Thursday afternoon stabbing of a social worker at SF General Hospital took a much darker turn early Saturday night when we learned that the social worker died from his stabbing injuries. We now know the stabbing victim was 51-year-old hospital social worker Alberto Rangel, and the suspect in the stabbing, 34-year-old Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi of San Francisco, has