By Bob Walsh
It happened almost tow years ago. Tai Lynn, 67, was homeless and had mental health issues. He was sleeping in a doorway on Sutter Street in the financial district when three men came up and began to stomp him to death. There was pretty decent surveillance footage of the attack but the local constabulary were unable to identify the bad guys. Eventually they released some of the footage in hopes that someone would be able to put a name to these vicious thugs.
As sometimes happen a DNA hit finally got the ball rolling. One of the two suspects currently in custody, Joseph Stull, 21, was arrested in Washington on a stolen car beef. At that time his DNA profile went into the system. For reasons unknown he did not remain in custody in Washington but the information eventually caught up and when Stull was again arrested in Kootenai County, Idaho the SFPD flew two officers there to interview him. He gave considerable detail on the crime and admitted his involvement. From that point the cops were able to identify Stockton, CA. resident David Peters as another of the perps and arrested his happy ass.
With any sort of luck these two quasi-humans will be in custody a very long time. Maybe the third man will also be identified and imprisoned as well.
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