A wrongful death claim has been filed against the city by the husband of Alberto Rangel, alleging that Rangel’s fatal stabbing by a patient at SF General Hospital last year was preventable, and he plans to file a lawsuit.
Alberto Rangel’s husband, Stuart Moulder, alleges in the wrongful death claim that city officials failed to protect healthcare workers at the HIV clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital where Rangel was fatally stabbed in December, as KRON4 reports. His attorney says the attack was preventable and argued that officials failed to take adequate steps to address foreseeable safety risks for staff.
As SFist reported in December, a patient at the clinic, 34-year-old Wilfredo Tortolero-Arriechi, is suspected of fatally stabbing 51-year-old UCSF social worker Alberto Rangel. Tortolero-Arriechi allegedly entered the clinic holding a kitchen knife and stabbed Rangel multiple times in the neck and shoulder while Rangel attempted to de-escalate the situation and escort him out. Rangel died two days later…