Attorney: Teen charged in shooting of San Francisco 49ers rookie shouldn’t face attempted murder
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The attorney for a 17-year-old high school senior charged in the daytime shooting of San Francisco 49ers rookie receiver Ricky Pearsall says that new video evidence supports his theory that the teenager should not be charged with attempted murder. San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Bob Dunlap said after a pretrial hearing Tuesday that evidence he found and has shared with prosecutors shows that what happened the afternoon of Aug. 31 was an attempted robbery, not attempted murder. The 23-year-old Pearsall was walking alone to his car after shopping at luxury stores in Union Square when the suspect allegedly tried to rob him.
