What we know about the Paul Pelosi attack and suspect David DePape - The Washington Post

“The Pelosi household is immensely grateful to Mr. Pelosi’s full aesculapian squad and the instrumentality enforcement officers who responded to the assault.”

Pelosi was “struck astatine slightest 1 time” during the attack, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott told a quality league connected Friday.

San Francisco constabulary accidental the suspect, aboriginal identified arsenic David DePape, forced introduction to the Pelosi location via a rear door.

According to a idiosyncratic briefed connected the case, who spoke with The Washington Post connected the information of anonymity to picture the details, DePape was searching for Speaker Pelosi erstwhile helium entered, shouting out, “Where is Nancy?”

Police were dispatched astatine 2:27 a.m. Friday to a break-in astatine the Pelosi home, Police Chief Scott said, adding that constabulary knocked connected arrival, and the beforehand doorway was opened “by idiosyncratic inside.”

Police saw the fishy struggling with Pelosi, with each antheral having “one manus connected a azygous hammer.”

Police, who were watching from extracurricular the doorway, told some men to driblet the hammer, astatine which constituent DePape “immediately pulled the hammer away” and “violently attacked” Pelosi with it, Scott said.

Police past tackled and disarmed DePape and arrested him, portion requesting paramedic and exigency backup. Scott said DePape would beryllium charged with attempted homicide, battle with a deadly weapon, elder maltreatment and burglary, among different offenses.

DePape was besides taken to hospital, wherever helium remained arsenic of Friday evening.

Police accidental Pelosi was “able to telephone 911.” However, it seems helium could not talk freely during the call.

Instead, Scott says, the dispatcher “was capable to work betwixt the lines” and “basically figured retired that determination was thing much to this incidental than what she was being told.”

“This was a well-being cheque and she conscionable knew determination was much to it. So she alerted — she went that other measurement — and due to the fact that of it, she dispatched it astatine a higher precedence … that led to a quicker response,” helium said.

Scott declined to springiness further details connected what was said during the call, but praised the dispatcher’s “quick thinking” and “intuition.”

The Associated Press, citing a idiosyncratic acquainted with the situation, said Pelosi had told the intruder helium had to usage the restroom, wherever his telephone was charging.

“This was not a random act. This was intentional,” Scott told reporters. However, helium said constabulary were not yet astatine a signifier wherever they could publically corroborate what the motive was.

San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said her squad was moving with instrumentality enforcement connected the probe and would bring guardant aggregate felony charges connected Monday and expect DePape to beryllium arraigned connected Tuesday. “DePape volition beryllium held accountable for his heinous crimes,” she added.

DePape shouted “Where is Nancy?” erstwhile helium entered the home, according to a idiosyncratic briefed connected the lawsuit — a striking echo of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol onslaught erstwhile a pro-Trump mob could beryllium heard chanting, “Nancy, Nancy” and “All we privation is Pelosi” arsenic they ransacked the gathering and her office.

Nancy Pelosi has been fundraising and campaigning with Democrats astir the state up of the midterm elections. When the onslaught happened she was successful Washington, according to U.S. Capitol Police.

Earlier this week, the talker had been successful Croatia for a forum connected Crimea and successful Washington D.C. connected Tuesday to conscionable with Israel’s president. On Wednesday greeting she was concisely successful San Francisco for an lawsuit astatine the Golden Gate Bridge earlier she returned to Washington.

DePape, 42, lives successful Richmond, Calif., astir 11 miles from Pelosi’s home.

The Washington Post confirmed that a voluminous blog written nether DePape’s sanction and filled with profoundly antisemitic writings and baseless claims — arsenic good arsenic pro-Trump and anti-Democratic posts — was registered to an code wherever DePape lives, according to neighbors.

In a azygous time earlier this month, the blog had 7 caller posts. The titles included: “Balcks Nda jEwS,” “Were the Germans truthful Stupid?” “Who FINANCED Hitler’s emergence to Power,” “Gas enclosure doors” and “I conjecture this is arsenic bully a clip arsenic any.” The second implored Trump to prime erstwhile House typical Tulsi Gabbard arsenic his moving mate for 2024.

DePape’s stepfather, Gene DePape, said in an interrogation with CNN that DePape was estranged from his household and had grown up successful Powell River, British Columbia, earlier leaving Canada decades agone for California.

Paul Pelosi, 82, owns Financial Leasing Services, a San Francisco-based existent property and task superior concern and consulting firm. He met his woman portion studying astatine Georgetown University. She was a pupil astatine Trinity College, present Trinity Washington University, astatine the time. The Pelosis person been joined for 59 years and person 5 children.

The Pelosis unrecorded successful the leafy Pacific Heights vicinity of San Francisco, which boasts multimillion-dollar homes. They person faced different incidents there, including successful 2021 erstwhile it was spray-painted and a pig’s caput near connected the sidewalk — seemingly in a protestation aimed astatine Congress over insufficient coronavirus pandemic relief.

President Biden has condemned the onslaught arsenic “despicable,” saying determination was “too overmuch hatred, excessively overmuch vitriol,” successful American politics.

He told a fundraising meal Friday nighttime successful Philadelphia that helium had spoken to Nancy Pelosi directly, who told him her hubby was “doing good … and helium seems to beryllium coming on good — he’s successful bully spirits,” Biden said.

He said it was irresponsible for politicians to talk of elections being “stolen” and of the coronavirus being a “hoax,” and not deliberation that specified statements whitethorn “affect radical who whitethorn not beryllium truthful good balanced.” He besides pointed to seemingly akin sentiments expressed against Pelosi during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

“What makes america deliberation that it’s not going to corrode the governmental climate? Enough is capable is enough,” Biden said. “Every idiosyncratic of bully conscience needs to intelligibly and unambiguously basal up against the unit successful our politics.”

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tweeted that helium was “horrified and disgusted” by the onslaught and “grateful to perceive that Paul is connected way to marque a afloat recovery.”

However, chap Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin drew ire after suggesting connected the run way that Republican voters would soon nonstop the House talker backmost location to beryllium with her husband.

“There’s nary country for unit anywhere, but we’re going to nonstop her backmost to beryllium with him successful California,” helium said. A spokeswoman for Youngkin aboriginal told The Post the politician wished Paul Pelosi “a afloat betterment and is keeping the Pelosi household successful his prayers.”

Annah Aschbrenner, Eugene Scott, Perry Stein, Paul Kane, Lisa Bonos and Aaron C. Davis contributed to this report.