A 42-year-old man accused of stabbing a father walking with his young son near an elementary school pleaded not guilty to murder and child endangerment charges in San Francisco Superior Court Friday.
Judge Harry Dorfman ordered Daniel Patrick Rodriguez Jr. to be detained as he awaited further hearings. Wearing glasses and an orange jumpsuit, Rodriguez appeared in court alongside his attorney, Deputy Public Defender Seth Meisels. Members of Rodriguez’s and the victim’s families filled the courtroom.
The stabbing shocked the quiet neighborhood of Balboa Terrace on Sept. 10. Prosecutors said Robert Paul Byrd II, 35, was walking in a crosswalk near Junipero Serra Boulevard and Ocean Avenue with his 8-year-old son just after 4:30 p.m. when he was fatally stabbed once in the chest after he and another man brushed shoulders in the crosswalk…