A 38-year-old man arrested Friday on suspicion of attempted murder after a hammer attack in San Francisco’s Tenderloin was also jailed last year during the investigation of a fatal stabbing, records show.
Christopher Redinger, 37, was arrested by San Francisco police on Dec. 8, 2022, after he was identified by investigators as the suspect who allegedly stabbed a man two months earlier on the 2000 block of Market Street.
The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim in the homicide as 44-year-old Otis Patterson.
According to a statement Saturday night from the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, a case against Redinger was initially discharged for lack of evidence to disprove his self-defense claim.
Noting that there is no statute of limitations on murder cases, the office said he will face arraignment at the Hall of Justice’s Department 10 if charged within 72 hours of his arrest.
Years earlier, Redinger was featured in a 2015 SFGate article about homeless people hanging out near Golden Gate Park at the Haight Street McDonalds that identified him as being from Minnesota.