SFist Blotter

The news just keeps getting sadder about the 19-year-old Indian immigrant killed Monday night while delivering Round Table pizzas in Vallejo. The victim, an only child, was helping to support his family with the money from his Round Table managerial job. The killers lured him out with a fake delivery for three pizzas, and while the victim didn't usually deliver, he agreed to take that one out because the restaurant was so busy that day. And geez, the killers even ate the pizza after the shooting. The police have two suspects in custody and are looking for three others.

In significantly less serious news, Frank Francisco, the Texas Rangers pitcher who threw a chair at the A's heckler was charged with misdemeanor assault in Alameda County. Francisco is scheduled to be arraigned today. If convicted, Francisco could face up to a year in jail. "He has no record. He threw a plastic chair. It's not a gun. It's not a knife," said the DA, in explaining why his office is not pursuing felony charges.

And finally, the San Francisco police have begun a crackdown on fortune-telling scams in the city, charging seven "psychics" with fraud and grand theft. One mother-and-daughter team (Reader and Advisor by Lisa, on Bush Street) convinced a man upset over the illness of a former girlfriend that the number 57 was significant, so he should buy $57 worth of candles, give them $5757, and burn $11,000 in the mountains. You may remember that to prevent this sort of thing, the Board of Supes previously created a passed a fortune-telling law and created a board to perform background checks and issue "psychic" licenses. In addition, the Board has banned the use of classic tricks like the knot in the thread, the blood in the glass, and the hair in the grapefruit, which are traditionally done to illustrate the evil curse which lies upon an individual client. The law is tailored to exempt, among others, fortune-cookie makers.