{"id":2016744,"date":"2023-08-30T13:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-shop-owner-dies-after-brutal-robber-attack\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:05:33","slug":"san-francisco-shop-owner-dies-after-brutal-robber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-shop-owner-dies-after-brutal-robber-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Shop Owner Dies After Brutal Robbery Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-francisco-shop-owner-dies-after-brutal-robber-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016744&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A San Francisco Shop Owner \u2063Dies After\u2062 Brutal\u2064 Robbery Attack<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A San Francisco shop owner has tragically\u2064 passed away after being brutally attacked by a robber who\u2063 beat him into a coma.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yowhannes \u201cJohn\u201d Tewelde, 60, sadly lost his life around 1 p.m. on Tuesday, as announced by his grieving family.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kids-can-only-watch-tragedy-unfold-after-dad-guides-family-of-ducks-across-street\/\" title=\"Dad guides family of ducks across street, leaving kids to watch tragedy unfold.\">heart-wrenching incident<\/a> took place \u2062on Thursday when the robber entered \u2062Tewelde\u2019s store,\u200b Richmond Market, located in a northern\u2064 San Francisco neighborhood, around \u20629:30 p.m. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-shop-owner-dies-after-brutal-robber-attack\/\" title=\"SF Shop Owner Dies After Brutal Robbery Assault\">thief initially stole\u200c water<\/a> and\u200d then returned ten minutes later to steal two beers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, the suspect confronted Tewelde, who \u200cwas holding a \u2062baseball\u200d bat. In \u200ca horrifying turn of events, the suspect \u2063pushed Tewelde to\u2063 the ground, causing\u200d him to hit his head. The thief \u200cthen mercilessly beat Tewelde\u2063 with his \u2062own \u200dbaseball bat.<\/p>\n<p>Tewelde was rushed to the hospital\u200c with a\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-k-court-rules-baby-can-be-taken-off-life-support-against-parents-wishes-parents-continue-to-fight\/\" title=\"U.K. Court Rules Baby Can Be Taken Off Life Support Against Parents\u2019 Wishes, Parents Continue To Fight\">severe brain injury<\/a>\u200b and underwent\u2064 two surgeries, but unfortunately, he never regained consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>The heartless thief fled the scene\u200b and is still at large.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from\u200b the San Francisco Police Department revealed that after the attack, \u200b&#8221;the suspect then threw the bat at\u200c another victim and fled the scene \u2064in an unknown sedan. The second victim was not injured during this incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tewelde\u2019s daughter, Meron Tewelde, expressed her\u2064 devastation, stating that her dad was &#8220;just trying to do the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was at home when I received a \u2064call from my mom. My dad was in the hospital. I didn&#8217;t think it was this severe. And \u200bnow, here we are,&#8221; \u200cshe said.<\/p>\n<p>The Tewelde family has received an outpouring of \u2063support from \u2064their \u200dneighbors in \u2063the Richmond District neighborhood.\u2064 Two compassionate neighbors have \u200dinitiated a fundraiser for the family, which has already raised over $48,000 as of Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thursday night, I \u2063witnessed \u2064our beloved store clerk, \u2064Yohannes Tewolde\u2014John, suffer from a brutal attack,&#8221;\u200d wrote \u200bone of the fundraiser \u2064organizers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a horrible\u2064 scene \u200dand has left me sad and distraught.\u200d As many of \u2062you know, \u2063he is a loving father,\u2062 husband, and owner \u2063of a sweet &#8216;store&#8217; cat named Nancy. \u200cHe worked \u200b7 days\u200b a week \u200dand always shared\u200c his warm smile with customers,&#8221; the fundraiser organizer said.<\/p>\n<h3>Crime Statistics in San Francisco<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Robberies are up 16%<\/li>\n<li>Murders are up 12%<\/li>\n<li>Car thefts are up 11%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Violent crime has \u2062been \u200bon the rise since 2019 in the\u2062 northern San Francisco \u2063neighborhood where the Tewolde family\u2019s shop is located.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In \u200bthe past year in Outer Richmond, there have been at least 71\u200d violent crimes\u200b compared to 64 during the same period ending \u2063in August 2019, according to police data.<\/p>\n<p>In the Bay Area, there is a significant overlap between\u2064 homelessness, drug use, and crime. These issues, particularly \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-now-almost-impossible-to-get-arrested-for-drugs-in-washington-state\/\" title=\"It\u2019s Now Almost Impossible To Get Arrested For Drugs In Washington State\">open-air drug<\/a> \u200buse, have driven\u200c businesses away from \u200cthe once bustling downtown\u200d area.<\/p>\n<p>On any\u2063 given night, approximately 38,000 people are homeless \u200din the Bay\u200b Area, marking a\u2063 35% increase since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The city is\u200c still grappling with a drug crisis, although\u200c overdose \u200cdeaths have \u2064decreased from their peak \u200din 2020 during the height of \u2062the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, San Francisco witnessed 620 fatal drug overdoses, down from\u200d 640 in 2021. However, in 2020, overdose\u200d deaths spiked to 725. In July alone, 71 people tragically lost their lives due to a fentanyl overdose, putting the city on track for a record number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/friday-october-8th-2021\/\" title=\"Friday | October 8th, 2021\">fentanyl overdoses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A San Francisco shop owner, Yowhannes \u201cJohn\u201d Tewelde, 60, has sadly passed away after a brutal robbery. The incident took place at his store, Richmond Market, in northern San Francisco. The robber attacked Tewelde, leaving him in a coma until his death was announced by his family on Tuesday at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2016745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}