Repeat offender with violent past accused of murdering woman during home invasion

A antheral with a agelong past of arrests is present accused of sidesplitting a pistillate during a location penetration successful a quiescent San Francisco neighborhood, a lawsuit that is renewing scrutiny of California’s mental-health diversion system.

Cassidy Wyatt Allen, 45, appeared successful tribunal Wednesday to look special-circumstance execution and first-degree burglary charges successful the decease of 38-year-old Jessica Alejandra Sanchez Landaverde. The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office announced the charges successful a quality release.

DA Brooke Jenkins, speaking to KTVU, said Allen could look beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole if convicted.

"Our hearts interruption for this family," Jenkins told the outlet. "It does not look they had immoderate transportation to 1 different and so, yes again, this is 1 of the sadly, astir scariest types of crimes that we tin imagine, happening."

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San Francisco Police said Cassidy Wyatt Allen was charged with special-circumstance execution successful the sidesplitting of a pistillate wrong her location successful San Francisco's Ingleside District. (Del Norte County Sheriff's Office)

According to the DA’s office, constabulary were dispatched conscionable earlier 3 p.m. connected Nov. 23 to a location connected the 200 artifact of Granada Avenue aft a tenant returned and heard idiosyncratic wrong unreserved to the beforehand doorway and fastener it. 

"Terrified and alarmed, she ran backmost to her conveyance and called 911," the territory attorney's bureau said. 

When officers arrived, they saw that a model adjacent the beforehand doorway was somewhat unfastened and the blinds were bent, adjacent though the beforehand doorway appeared untouched. When they pushed it open, they discovered Sanchez Landaverde lying connected her backmost adjacent the ft of the bed. She was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

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Later that day, officers responding to a payment cheque adjacent 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard located a antheral matching the statement of a idiosyncratic of involvement successful the killing. Police detained him and identified him arsenic Allen. Investigators determined they had probable origin to apprehension him.

Allen was booked into San Francisco County Jail connected suspicion of execution and first-degree burglary. He is being held without bail, according to jailhouse records.

His adjacent tribunal day is scheduled for Dec. 17.

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According to jailhouse records, Cassidy Wyatt Allen is being held without bail successful transportation to the convulsive location penetration that near a pistillate dead.  (Google Maps)

A reappraisal of tribunal records shows this was not his archetypal brushwood with the criminal-justice system. Court records reviewed by The California Post amusement helium antecedently faced arrests for second-degree robbery, battery, battle with a deadly weapon, inflicting wounded connected an elder oregon babelike adult, and possession of burglary tools and cause paraphernalia.

Allen besides had a run-in with constabulary successful Del Norte County successful 2022. Capt. Kyle Stevens of the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News Digital that Allen was arrested connected Jan. 28, 2022, by the Crescent City Police Department for violating Penal Code §415.3 for utilizing violative oregon provocative words successful nationalist that are apt to provoke an contiguous convulsive reaction.

"He was fundamentally challenging radical to a fight," Stevens said. 

Allen was booked into the Del Norte County Jail and released the aforesaid time connected a committedness to appear. Stevens said Allen ne'er returned for a tribunal quality and nary warrant was issued, which typically indicates prosecutors declined to prosecute the case.

Stevens emphasized that Allen was not a nonmigratory of Del Norte County and had nary different law-enforcement contacts there. He appeared to beryllium a transient idiosyncratic passing done the region, apt continuing southbound toward the Bay Area aft his release.

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San Francisco Police arrested Cassidy Wyatt Allen successful a execution case. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

At slightest 1 earlier lawsuit resulted successful Allen being placed successful California’s mental-health diversion program, a strategy that steers eligible defendants into attraction alternatively of incarceration. If participants comply with attraction and debar caller arrests, charges whitethorn beryllium paused oregon dismissed.

Under Penal Code §1001.36, judges indispensable find whether a defendant’s mental-health upset importantly contributed to the discourtesy and whether they airs an "unreasonable risk" to nationalist information earlier granting diversion.

Critics reason the programme has expanded excessively far, sometimes encompassing defendants with convulsive histories.

Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper is among those informing that the diversion statute has go a loophole misused by chronic offenders.

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"There’s country for diversion somewhere, particularly idiosyncratic that has an addiction problem," Cooper antecedently told Fox News Digital. "But what’s happened is they unfastened the gates wide. So close present everyone’s taking vantage of it. A batch of criminals are. They’re truly abusing the system, and that’s the unfortunate portion astir it."

While Allen’s existent charges, special-circumstance execution and first-degree burglary, are explicitly barred from diversion eligibility nether authorities law, his earlier placement into the programme contempt repeated arrests is apt to intensify statement implicit however judges measure risk.

Neighbors told KTVU they were stunned that specified a convulsive onslaught occurred successful their typically quiescent and harmless neighborhood.

"I americium saddened by it due to the fact that I deliberation our metropolis is mostly going successful the close direction. We’ve turned the corner," neighbour Rose Galloway said. "Incidents similar this are going to hap successful a large metropolis each erstwhile successful a while. I’m bittersweet to perceive astir it happening truthful adjacent to us."

Neighbors told the outlet they often spot a ft patrol serviceman on Ocean Boulevard and accidental the country mostly feels safe.

"I person seen this vicinity alteration for the amended implicit the years. It’s incredible," said Garrett Naro. "Crime is not thing we deliberation about. It’s precise safe."

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The lawsuit is present being handled by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Homicide Unit. Investigators accidental they are inactive gathering grounds and impulse anyone with accusation to interaction the San Francisco Police Department extremity enactment astatine 1-415-575-4444.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office for comment. 

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send communicative tips to [email protected].