Overview
- Investigators say a man entered a bank ATM vestibule on July 1 with a roughly six-week-old kitten and violently killed the animal, a case first flagged to police by San Francisco Animal Care and Control.
- Animal control and SFPD investigators identified the suspect as 33-year-old William Ohlson of Reno, Nevada and located him at a hotel on Fell Street.
- Officers attempted to serve a search warrant at the hotel and a police drone detected the suspect after he fled onto a rooftop of an adjacent building.
- The San Francisco Fire Department deployed a ladder to help officers remove the man from the roof and SFPD booked him on suspicion of animal abuse and resisting or evading arrest.
- Jail logs cited in recent reporting show he was not listed as in custody as of the latest update and officials have not publicly detailed formal charges or the next prosecutorial steps, leaving the case’s outcome unresolved.