Brooke Jenkins announced a murder charge against David Maldonado Sanabria after a fatal Excelsior hit-and-run.

Tuesday's announcement is the charging decision. It is not a verdict, and neither KRON nor SFist reported how the arraignment ended. The police booking list from Oct. 22 includes a combined drug-and-alcohol count. KRON's account of Tuesday's charges describes alcohol, a blood-alcohol allegation over 0.15 percent, and a refused chemical test, and it does not mention drugs.

KRON reported Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, that San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced charges against David Maldonado Sanabria, 29, including murder, driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, with allegations of a blood-alcohol level over 0.15 percent and of refusing a chemical test, and leaving the scene of a crash. SFist reported the murder count is second-degree, and that the other counts announced are driving under the influence causing a fatality with reckless disregard for human life, fleeing the scene of an injury collision, fleeing the scene of a fatal collision, and violating probation. The San Francisco Police Department, in a release dated Oct. 26, said that on Oct. 22 it booked him for Penal Code section 187(a), second-degree murder, under People v. Watson, which the release described as driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, causing a fatality, with conscious disregard for human life. The release also listed Penal Code section 191.5(a), driving under the influence causing a fatality with reckless disregard for human life; Vehicle Code sections 20001(a) and 20001(b), fleeing the scene of a collision causing bodily injury and fleeing the scene of a fatal collision; Vehicle Code section 23153(g), driving under the combined influence of drugs and alcohol and causing great bodily injury; and Penal Code section 1203.2(a), a probation violation. The Oct. 22 list is a booking. Tuesday's announcement is what KRON and SFist reported the district attorney said she was charging. The combined drug-and-alcohol count is in the police list. It is not in KRON's account of Tuesday's charges.

The police release said officers responded at about 7:05 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2026, to Moscow Street and France Avenue for a hit-and-run collision involving a pedestrian. It said paramedics rendered aid and took the pedestrian to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, and that the Traffic Collision Investigation Unit took the investigation. It said officers obtained a photograph of the vehicle's license plate, that the Real Time Investigation Center used automated license-plate readers, and that plainclothes officers located the vehicle about three miles from the collision and detained the driver. It identified him as 29-year-old David Maldonado Sanabria. It said officers conducted a DUI investigation, developed probable cause, and booked him into San Francisco County Jail. It said that on Oct. 19, while he remained in custody, the department was notified that the pedestrian had died in the hospital from the injuries. It said investigators, with the district attorney's office, determined his criminal history contained multiple prior DUI convictions, and that the Oct. 22 booking took account of the fatality, those convictions, and toxicology results. The release does not print a toxicology number. It does not print the pedestrian's name or age.

KRON and SFist both reported the pedestrian was 43 and was in a crosswalk at Moscow Street and France Avenue at about 7:05 p.m. on Oct. 1, that he fell backwards onto the pavement, and that Maldonado Sanabria slowed, looked at him, and drove away. KRON reported he was driving a truck, and that Jenkins said a witness followed the truck and photographed the plate. SFist reported the same plate photograph as what investigators said, through the witness. KRON reported Jenkins said two prior DUI convictions are what allow the office to charge murder in this case. KRON's first sentence said he had multiple previous DUI convictions. The police release said multiple prior DUI convictions. Two and multiple are not the same number. SFist also reported two. KRON and SFist both placed the intersection in the Excelsior. The police release named the intersection and did not name a district. Both reported Jenkins said, "This is a tragedy," and, "This man was just over 40 years old who died. And lost his life just walking down the street." KRON reported she repeated the line about a tragedy. The pedestrian is not named in these accounts.

KRON reported Maldonado Sanabria was scheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and that the district attorney's office was seeking to have him detained without bail pending trial. SFist reported the same arraignment time and that the office was filing a motion to hold him in custody pending trial because of what Jenkins called a "significant risk to public safety." Neither story reported a ruling on that motion. The police release said he was booked into county jail on Oct. 1 and was still in custody when the department learned of the death on Oct. 19. A booking and a request to detain him are custody steps. They are not a finding that he was the driver, and they are not a sentence. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.