Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-CA and her husband Paul Pelosi arrive for the formal Artist’s Dinner honoring the recipients of the 44th Annual Kennedy Center Honors at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 4, 2021.
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A man beat Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at his San Francisco home on Friday.
During the attack, Pelosi tried to escape to an elevator to call 911, SF District Attorney said.
The DOJ and SF District Attorney announced charges on Monday against the suspect, David DePape.
Paul Pelosi tried to escape to an elevator equipped with a phone inside his San Francisco home to call 911 after a suspect broke into the house and entered his bedroom, San Francisco District Attorney Brook Jenkins said in a Monday press conference.
The district attorney announced additional charges against David DePape, 42, in connection to the assault against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband.
Charges included attempted murder, residential burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, false imprisonment of an elder, and threats to a public official and their family.
According to Jenkins, DePape entered the home by breaking a rear glass door of the Pelosis home and went upstairs to the second floor to find Pelosi sleeping in his bed.
“He woke him up confronting him about the whereabouts of Speaker Pelosi,” Jenkins said, adding that Pelosi was wearing a pajama shirt and boxer shorts.
At some point, Pelosi tried to access the elevator that had a telephone to call authorities, the district attorney said.
In addition, the Justice Department announced two felony charges against DePape: one count of assault of an immediate family member of a US official with the intent to retaliate against the official on account of the performance of official duties, and one count of attempted kidnapping of a US official on account of the performance of official duties.
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