A erstwhile assemblage jock who was raised by her supercomputer genius dada successful a $1.1 cardinal location has go a homeless pistillate surviving connected the streets of San Francisco wherever she spends her days threatening to abduct and termination children.
Kim Ann Andrews, 36, grew up successful Pennsylvania and Southern California with her father, Dr. Philip Andrews, who was a highly respected machine idiosyncratic and was regarded arsenic a person successful the exertion field.
Andrews became an accomplished precocious schoolhouse way and tract rival astatine Torrey Pines High School adjacent San Diego, and was conscientious and affable with his teammates, her now-retired coach, Brenton Thorne told the San Francisco Chronicle.
She went connected to tally way for 2 years astatine the University of California San Diego, wherever she remained enrolled for astir 10 years earlier dropping retired successful March 2015 - ne'er completing her grade successful biochemistry and compartment biology.
But now, Andrews has go notorious in the Laurel Village, Inner Richmond District, Cole Valley and Inner Sunset neighborhoods of the woke city, arsenic residents repeatedly study terrifying experiences with Andrews implicit the past 4 years.
Andrews became an accomplished precocious schoolhouse way and tract rival astatine Torrey Pines High School adjacent San Diego
Kim Ann Andrews, 36, has go notorious successful San Francisco, arsenic residents repeatedly study terrifying experiences with Andrews implicit the past 4 years
She has faced transgression charges ranging successful caller years from artillery and robbery to shoplifting and transgression threats.
But residents accidental thing has been done to halt Andrews' assertive behavior, arsenic she cycles done the jails and tribunal earlier returning to the streets.
They person since banded unneurotic to promote others to telephone 911 to study any harassment of children.
Some person filed constabulary reports and posted connected societal media, detailing their experiences with Andrews successful which she allegedly harassed preschoolers oregon told children astatine playgrounds she would 'slit their throats.'
Inner Richmond nonmigratory Kenna Palefsky said she has adjacent started aggregating constabulary reports since 2020 aft she said Andrews crouched down and shouted astatine her lad portion helium was successful a stroller.
She grew up successful a $1.1 cardinal location extracurricular of San Diego with her begetter who was well-known for his enactment with supercomputers and siblings
Yelena Dunduchenko besides said she encountered Andrews successful 2020, portion she was moving arsenic a nanny.
'She started screaming and saying, "I americium going to instrumentality your child, I americium going to termination you,"' she recounted.
'It was truly scary.'
Megan Grasser said Andrews' antics adjacent led her to permission San Francisco.
She said she archetypal encountered Andrews erstwhile Grasser was nine-months-pregnant successful precocious 2020.
The 2nd brushwood came 3 months later, erstwhile Grasser realized Andrews was chasing her and her dog.
Andrews past spewed a bid of vile comments and formed her manus into the signifier of a gun, enactment it to Grasser's caput and said, 'I was sent present to termination you.'
Andrews' begetter was Philip Andrews, who was 'instrumental successful bringing respective high-end nationalist computing systems to the San Diego Supercomputer Center' astatine the University of California San Diego, according to an online obituary.
Residents successful the Cole Valley and Inner Sunset neighborhoods besides noticed an uptick successful encounters with Andrews earlier this year.
Some person elaborate their experiences, with 1 writing connected Reddit that Andrews typically approaches radical with 'dogs or young kids, inquire weird questions, past get aggressive.'
For her behavior, Andrews has already been arrested respective times this year.
In January, Andrews was arrested connected suspicion of artillery and trespassing pursuing an statement astatine a secondhand covering store connected Irving Street, and store owners aboriginal obtained a restraining bid against her.
Then connected the greeting of July 19, Andrews allegedly approached a parent who was walking her 18-month-old toddler adjacent Golden Gate Park.
She is accused of holding a lighter to a tin of Lysol, and processing a 'fixation' connected the child.
Andrews past allegedly threatened the mother, 'I'm going to termination you.'
She was aboriginal taken into custody aft parkland rangers spotted her entering a nationalist bathroom.
But prosecutors who reviewed the lawsuit declined to instantly property charges, and Andrews was released.
'The constabulary had probable origin to marque an apprehension based connected the grounds gathered; however, to marque due charging decisions for transgression prosecution further probe is required,' Randolph Quezada, a spokesperson for the territory attorney’s bureau told the Chronicle astatine the time.
Officials yet announced connected Tuesday they person a warrant retired for Andrews' arrest.
A San Francisco Department of Public Health clinician moving with the city's Healthy Streets Operations Center told a acrophobic nonmigratory that wellness officials were alert of Andrews' 'distressing' behavior
Residents, however, accidental that is not enough.
'It's been 4 to 5 years and thing has happened,' Palefsky said. 'She has been fixed unlimited 2nd chances.
'Despite her being successful and retired of the system, they proceed to merchandise her backmost connected the streets,' she said.
In information successful a 2021 email, a San Francisco Department of Public Health clinician moving with the city's Healthy Streets Operations Center told a acrophobic nonmigratory that wellness officials were alert of Andrews' 'distressing' behaviour and were trying to 'locate her, measure her and link her with the due services.'
The clinician recommended that the nonmigratory telephone constabulary if they proceed to perceive 'threatening statements oregon consciousness determination is simply a information risk.'
Part of the occupation is that nether California law, authorities tin lone unit radical into attraction if they airs an contiguous information oregon if they are gravely disabled.
'There person been aggregate attempts to get her into lodging oregon get her a intelligence wellness appraisal - she doesn't privation that, and we can't marque her,' David Burke, the San Francisco Police Department nationalist information liaison said.
As a result, the lone mode for Andrews to person intelligence wellness services is done the transgression justness system, according to the constabulary department's Park Station Captain Jack Hart.
Residents accidental thing has been done to halt Andrews' assertive behavior, arsenic she cycles done the jails and tribunal earlier returning to the streets
City officials are present hoping that measures included successful Proposition 1, which voters approved earlier this year, whitethorn make much opportunities for Andrews to person assistance.
Under the multibillion-dollar authorities program, much facilities could go disposable for radical struggling with intelligence wellness oregon cause use.
The metropolis is besides moving up with its planned adoption of a caller instrumentality that expands involuntary committedness of radical with terrible intelligence illness.
And successful July, a multi-agency task unit began dismantling some of the hundreds of tents and impermanent shelters that residents successful areas racked by transgression and cause maltreatment person tolerated for years.
The authorities had spent $24 cardinal tackling homelessness successful the 5 years to 2023 but did not way if the wealth was helping the state's increasing fig of unhoused people, a damning study revealed successful May.
San Francisco present has astir 8,300 radical sleeping connected the streets, with scenes of stateless cause addicts stumbling connected sidewalks and fears of unit becoming a nationalist governmental issue.
Mayor London Breed present says the Supreme Court has yet fixed her the powerfulness to bash thing astir it.
'The occupation is not going to beryllium solved by gathering much housing,' she declared.
'Thank goodness for the Supreme Court decision.'