CNA Staff, Apr 25, 2024 / 16:45 pm
San Francisco police arrested a homeless man last Sunday for allegedly stabbing a Catholic parishioner after an altercation involving the two outside a historic Catholic church in the city.
Twenty-five-year-old Marko Asaulyuk of San Francisco was charged with attempted murder and eight counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
The victim, who was released from the hospital Sunday, only suffered a minor injury to his leg, Father Tho Bui, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Church, told CNA Thursday in an email.
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone was conferring the sacrament of confirmation on the parish school’s students, religious education students, and students from a nearby parish during a noon Mass when a “disruptive man” entered the church, as Bui described him.