user: Input: San Francisco shooting: man deported five times calls crime accidental
A man arrested in the seemingly random fatal shooting of a woman at a San Francisco pier has admitted in a jailhouse interview that he shot her, but said it was an accident.

Francisco Sanchez, 45, was arrested over the death of Kathryn Steinle, 32, who was killed while out for an evening stroll at Pier 14 with her father and a family friend last Wednesday. Police said witnesses heard no argument or dispute, suggesting it was a random attack.

Witnesses took pictures of Sanchez immediately after the shooting, and the images helped police arrest him while he was walking on a sidewalk a few blocks away.

The shooting drew national attention and criticism of the city’s sanctuary ordinance after federal officials revealed that Sanchez had seven felony convictions and had been deported five times to his native Mexico.

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The Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump seized on the case to further his controversial criticism of Mexico and immigrants to the US, saying on Friday it was “yet another example of why we must secure our border immediately”.

“This is an absolutely disgraceful situation and I am the only one that can fix it. Nobody else has the guts to even talk about it,” the billionaire developer and reality TV personality said.

On Sunday, Sanchez told KGO-TV in 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, smoking a cigarette.

“So I picked it up and … it started to fire on its own,” Sanchez said, adding that he heard three shots.

He appeared confused and sometimes spoke incoherently, and said he had 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.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had turned Sanchez over to authorities in San Francisco on 26 March, on an outstanding drug warrant.

The sheriff’s department released Sanchez on 15 April, after the San Francisco district attorney’s office declined to prosecute him for what authorities said was a decade-old marijuana possession case.

An ICE spokeswoman, Virginia Kice, said the agency had issued a detainer for Sanchez, requesting notification of his release and that he would stay in custody until immigration authorities could pick him up. The detainer was not honoured, she said.

Freya Horne, counsel for the San Francisco sheriff’s department, said on Friday that federal detention requests were not sufficient to hold someone. Under the city’s sanctuary ordinance, people in the country illegally are not handed over to immigration officials unless there is a warrant for their arrest.

Sanchez said he returned to the US after being deported because he found better-paying jobs in the country than in Mexico.
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Input: Radcliffe Shakes Off Rival
“I’ve been there so many times,” Radcliffe said. “I was determined it was my turf.”

Radcliffe answered with yet another move, and this time Wami could not answer. Running with her familiar pained expression, head bob and wide arm carriage, Radcliffe broke Wami’s determination and reached the finish line farther ahead of her Ethiopian challenger than at any other point in the 26.2-mile race, winning by 23 seconds in 2 hours 23 minutes 9 seconds.

Wami finished second in 2:23:32, but the consolation prize was actually richer for her than the winner’s purse. While Radcliffe took home $130,000 for first place, Wami won $500,000 as the victor in the World Marathon Majors series, a points contest held over the past two years for participants in the New York City, Boston, Chicago, London and Berlin marathons.

Jelena Prokopcuka of Latvia, who was seeking to become the only female runner other than Norway’s Grete Waitz to win New York three years in a row, fell off the opening pace almost immediately and took third in 2:26:13, more than three minutes behind Radcliffe.

Radcliffe’s victory was far off her world record of 2:15:25, set in London in 2003, but she was not here to set a record on this difficult course lined with bridges and hills.

Instead, at 33, Radcliffe was here to resume her marathon career after an absence of two years and to bolster her reputation as the greatest female marathoner of all time.

She has now won seven of the eight marathons that she has started, the only smudge on her record being the 2004 Athens Olympics, which she did not finish.

If she can figure out how to race in hot, smoggy conditions, Radcliffe may be able to redeem herself at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. For now, it was enough to demonstrate that an elite runner can remain near the top of her career after training during and after pregnancy with little time off to recuperate.

Yesterday’s result also appeared to show that Radcliffe had recovered from complications of overuse after she resumed training, including a stress fracture of her sacrum, the triangular bone located at the base of her spine.

Radcliffe also overcame a regular, if not sporting, tactic of the Ethiopians. They often have been content in major international track races to let Radcliffe lead the entire way before passing her on the final lap. It has worked on the track, but not yesterday in the marathon.

“It’s different, but I wouldn’t criticize anyone’s race tactics,” Radcliffe said.

She did not have a specific race strategy, but no one else seemed to want to take the lead at the start, so Radcliffe eagerly set the pace. Prokopcuka had wanted to run the first half of the marathon in 1:12, but after several miles she knew the race would be much faster. Her hip bothered her, so she let Radcliffe go ahead.

Only Wami followed closely, and after four miles, their lead was 12 seconds. By Mile 6, it was 47 seconds. Radcliffe and Wami reached the halfway point in 1:10.47, and by then the small chase pack was more than two and a half minutes in the rear. Only two women had a chance to win.

On First Avenue, Radcliffe surged with mile splits of 5:16 and 5:17, but Wami remained with her. Radcliffe surged again, reeling off Mile 23 in 5:25, opening a six-second lead, yet Wami closed again. Another gap opened, then closed. Then, along Central Park South, Wami made her move, pulling to Radcliffe’s left, passing her by perhaps a stride.

“Respond, respond,” Radcliffe told herself. “Don’t panic.”

In 10 seconds, Radcliffe had covered Wami’s move and, by the final turn into Central Park at Columbus Circle, Wami had essentially conceded, the quick turnover and the desire having left her stride. Her stomach had begun to ache and she felt nauseous, and she could not answer.

Radcliffe had won this race in 2004 and she knew the course intimately. As recently as Thursday night, she had practiced running the final uphill stretch in Central Park. It is one thing to sprint past her on the track, quite another thing to beat her in a marathon.

“She was just too strong,” Wami said.

At the finish, Radcliffe hugged her daughter, Isla, and so did Wami. She had given birth to her own daughter, Eva, four years ago. Her return had been more complicated than Radcliffe’s, Wami said, adding that back and leg pains had bothered her for several years.

“I was impressed that Paula was able to train during her pregnancy,” Wami said, “and even more impressed that so soon after she was able to perform well and win.”

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page F4 of the New York edition with the headline: On Familiar Turf, Radcliffe Shakes Off Rival. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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assistant: Paula Radcliffe of England reached the finish line farther ahead of her Ethiopian challenger, Gete Wami, than at any other point in the race.