John Coté, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, June 16, 2008
(06-16) 18:07 PDT DALY CITY -- A San Francisco man is expected to be charged with murder Tuesday in San Mateo County Superior Court for allegedly stabbing a fellow patron at a Daly City restaurant after the victim made crass comments about a waitress, police said.
Both Jesus Hernandez, 33, and Carlos Padilla-Ovedio, 25, were at the Durango restaurant about 5 p.m. Friday when Hernandez apparently began making "rude comments to the female waitress," police Lt. Jay Morena said.
Both men were "semi-regulars" at the small restaurant, Morena said.
After hearing Hernandez's comments, Padilla-Ovedio stabbed him in the torso and ran out the door, police said. Hernandez was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
It was unclear whether the motive was a desire to be "a knight in shining armor saving the damsel in distress, machismo, or he just got tired hearing this guy popping off," Morena said.
Employees knew Padilla-Ovedio only by his first name and described him as an illegal immigrant from Honduras who was working as a carpet installer, police said.
Detectives, with a sketch of the suspect, were able to track him down Sunday afternoon at a home on Revere Street in San Francisco and arrested him without incident, police said.
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