Fatal Home Invasion in San Francisco Results in Charges for Suspect
I still can’t get the image out of my head—the quiet street, usually so calm, suddenly the scene of a tragedy. Over the weekend, a home invasion in San Francisco’s Ingleside District turned deadly, leaving a woman, Jessica Alejandra Sanchez Landaverde, dead and a community in shock.
You might be thinking, “This can’t happen here,” and I felt the same reading about it. Ingleside is the kind of neighborhood where neighbors wave to each other, kids ride bikes freely, and crime rarely feels personal. But this incident proves that even the most peaceful streets can hide danger.
The suspect, Cassidy Wyatt Allen, 45, had no prior connection to the victim. He’s now facing special-circumstance murder and burglary charges, which could mean life in prison without parole if convicted. That fact alone makes the crime feel colder—it wasn’t a dispute, a robbery gone wrong, or anything we could have predicted. It was a stranger, walking into someone’s home, and taking a life…