#KateSteinle loved living life to the fullest. Her family wanted us to share these pics of her #smile. More at 6pm. pic.twitter.com/npkv10hozw — Chris Nguyen ABC7 (@ChrisNguyenTV) July 4, 2015 
 
 Parents of Kate Steinle told me #faith will keep the family moving forward and they're touched by the community's outpouring of support. — Chris Nguyen ABC7 (@ChrisNguyenTV) July 3, 2015 
 
 In an interview you'll see only on ABC7 News, the man accused of shooting and killing a young woman at San Francisco's Pier 14 admitted to the crime and talked about where he got the gun.Jose Inez Garcia Zarate, who was also known as Juan Francisco López-Sánchez, didn't recall every detail because he says he doesn't remember everything that happened. But in the 45 minute jailhouse interview, he revealed how the shooting went down and why he kept returning to the United States after being deported numerous times."Did you shoot Kate Steinle, the lady who was down at Pier 14.""Yes.""You did shoot her?""Mm hm," he said with a nod.Steinle was shot and killed near the Ferry Building on Wednesday. Sanchez tells ABC7 News that the shooting was an accident. He says he was wandering on Pier 14 after taking sleeping pills he found in a dumpster."Where did you get the gun?""In the ground. When the... when the... over there in the bench, um, um, I put my leg and I see the one T-shirt and then see over there something like that."He claims a gun was wrapped in that T-shirt and that it went off when he picked it up."Then suddenly I heard that boom boom, three times," Sanchez said.He claims he kicked the gun into the San Francisco Bay, lit up a cigarette, and walked off, not knowing he shot someone until he was arrested by police hours later. Sanchez reportedly first told police he was shooting at sea lions.He appeared frail and nervous when he talked about returning to the U.S. after being deported back to his native Mexico five times."Why did you keep coming back to the U.S., why did you come back to San Francisco?""Because I was looking for jobs in the restaurant or roofing, landscaping, or construction."Sanchez said he knew San Francisco was a sanctuary city where he would not be pursued by immigration officials."Yeah, I'm feeling sorry for everybody.""You feel sorry for everybody? Including Kate Steinle's family?""Yeah."In Spanish, Sanchez said the courts should give him the highest punishment so that he can tell her parents in court that he no longer wants to live.ABC7 News reached out to the Steinle family on Sunday for their reaction to Sanchez's interview. They did not have any immediate comment, saying that right now their goal is preserving her memory.At that point, Sanchez said he did not have an attorney.The family has set up ain memory of Kate Steinle. ||||| Pier killing suspect, in jailhouse interview, admits firing gun 
 
 The suspect arrested last week in the death of Kathryn Steinle on Pier 14 admitted to the killing and said he found a gun moments before he fired the shot that hit the 32-year-old woman. 
 
 Francisco Sanchez, 45, spoke in broken English to KGO-TV reporter Cornell Barnard during a Sunday afternoon jailhouse interview, in which Sanchez cryptically touched on the events leading to Wednesday’s slaying. 
 
 “Did you shoot Kate Steinle, the lady that was down on Pier 14?” Barnard asked Sanchez. 
 
 “Yes,” he replied. 
 
 Through a series of tangled words, Sanchez appeared to say that he found the gun wrapped in a shirt on a bench after he had taken sleeping pills that he found in a trash bin. 
 
 “I hear the boom, boom three times,” he told KGO TV. 
 
 A source familiar with the investigation said last week that Sanchez admitted to killing Steinle, but said he was at the pier to shoot at sea lions. When he realized around 6:30 p.m. that he had shot the Pleasanton native, Sanchez threw the gun into the bay and ran off, the source said. 
 
 The suspect was captured along the Embarcadero shortly after the killing. Steinle died a few hours later at San Francisco General Hospital. 
 
 Sanchez may be formally charged Monday when the case is turned over to the San Francisco district attorney’s office. He is being held on suspicion of murder in county lockup. 
 
 The case has drawn national attention after it was revealed that Sanchez was an undocumented immigrant who had been deported five times and has a rap sheet of seven felonies. 
 
 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said that San Francisco sheriff’s deputies released Sanchez from jail in April, despite asking that they be notified before his release, so they could deport him. 
 
 The Sheriff’s Department, though, said it followed its own “no-holds ICE policy,” which states that it does not honor immigration detention requests from federal officials. 
 
 The department’s policy is an expansion on a citywide ordinance, and a 2013 law passed through the state Legislature, saying only immigrants facing serious felonies can be held for federal immigration officials. Such requests are treated as voluntary, according to the law. 
 
 Sanchez has been convicted of seven felonies, four of which were drug related, and the most recent for re-entering the country after deportation. Sanchez was serving time in federal prison before immigration officials brought him to San Francisco to clear an outstanding warrant for marijuana possession. 
 
 The drug charge was tossed out on March 27, and after deputies checked to make sure there was no legal basis to hold him, Sanchez was released. 
 
 The reason he kept coming back to the United States, he told KGO, was that he was “looking for the jobs in the restaurant or roofing, landscaping or construction” businesses. 
 
 Sanchez, looking despondent during the interview, appeared to be remorseful and said he wanted to apologize for what happened. 
 
 Evan Sernoffsky is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: esernoffsky@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @EvanSernoffsky ||||| SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man arrested in the seemingly random fatal shooting of a woman at a San Francisco pier admitted in a jailhouse interview that he shot her, but said it was an accident. 
 
 Francisco Sanchez, 45, told KGO-TV Sunday n a mix of Spanish and English that he found a gun wrapped inside a shirt while he was sitting on a bench at the pier and smoking a cigarette. 
 
 "So I picked it up and ... it started to fire on its own," Sanchez said, adding that he heard three shots go off. 
 
 He appeared confused and sometimes spoke incoherently during the interview, and said he has poor vision and was under the influence of sleeping pills at the time of the shooting. 
 
 "All I want to say is that in the courts, I want them to give me the punishment I deserve and get it over with as soon as possible," Sanchez said during the roughly 45-minute interview. 
 
 Kathryn Steinle, 32, was gunned down while out for an evening stroll at Pier 14 with her father and a family friend on Wednesday. Police said witnesses heard no argument or dispute before the shooting, suggesting it was a random attack. 
 
 Witnesses at the popular waterfront attraction snapped photos of Sanchez immediately after the shooting, and the images helped police make the arrest while he was walking on a sidewalk a few blocks away. 
 
 The shooting has drawn national attention and criticism of the city's sanctuary ordinance after federal officials revealed that Sanchez has seven felony convictions and was deported five times to his native Mexico. 
 
 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had turned Sanchez over to authorities in San Francisco on March 26 on an outstanding drug warrant. 
 
 The Sheriff's Department released Sanchez on April 15 after the San Francisco district attorney's office declined to prosecute him for what authorities said was a decade-old marijuana possession case. 
 
 ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said the agency had issued a detainer for Sanchez, requesting notification of his release and that he stays in custody until immigration authorities could pick him up. The detainer was not honored, she said. 
 
 Freya Horne, counsel for the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, said Friday that federal detention requests are not sufficient to hold someone. Under the city's sanctuary ordinance, people in the country illegally aren't handed over to immigration officials unless there's a warrant for their arrest. 
 
 Sanchez said he returned to the U.S. after being deported because he found better-paying jobs in the country than in Mexico.
– If murder suspect Francisco Sanchez had a lawyer, he probably would have been advised not to speak to ABC7—and not to confess to shooting Kate Steinle, 32, with a gun he found on a bench while high on sleeping pills he found in the trash. In the jailhouse interview, Sanchez tells the station that the Wednesday shooting at San Francisco's Pier 14 was an accident and that the gun he found wrapped in a T-shirt went off three times when he picked it up. "I heard that boom, boom three times," he says. Sources close to the investigation say Sanchez earlier claimed he was at the pier to shoot sea lions, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The 45-year-old Mexican citizen also speaks about his immigration status, which has made his case national news and attracted the attention of Donald Trump. Sanchez, who has seven felony convictions and has been deported from the US five times, says he kept coming back to the US because he was "looking for jobs in the restaurant or roofing, landscaping, or construction" industries—and San Francisco is a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants. Sanchez appeared confused and agitated during the interview, and he said he wants the courts to "give me the punishment I deserve and get it over with as soon as possible," the AP notes.