Former fire commissioner badly injured in brutal attack in San Francisco

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Former San Franciso fire commissioner Don Carmignani has undergone emergency skull surgery after being brutally beaten by a man armed with a metal pipe, his family said. Former San Francisco Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani was brutally attacked this week The elder Carmignani added that he had lived his entire life in San Francisco but the family had decided to leave after Wednesday’s attack. A suspect, identified as 24-year-old Garet Doty, was seen on surveillance footage walking with a long metal object soon after the assault San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins described it as a “very brutal and violent attack” at the same meeting. Bob Lee, known to his friends as ‘Crazy Bob’, was knifed to death in central San Francisco early on Tuesday morning San Francisco is already on edge after the unsolved murder of beloved tech executive Bob Lee early on Tuesday morning.