Although SFPD inspector Matt Krimsky explicitly told SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi that "there is no evidence of foul play whatsoever" in the elevator-shaft death of Dr. Dan Kliman, a hate crime and homicide task was formed soon after that declaration. Even though police claim that Kliman got stuck in an elevator between floors, manually opened the doors, and then fell seven stories to his death, this newly formed task force might - - suggest room for another possibility. (Commenters on several sites have theorized anything from a cover-up by the fuzz to anti-Zionist foul play.) Krimsky has since been ordered to button his lip when it comes to talking to the press. more ›

The body found inside an elevator shaft at Sharon Building (55 New Montgomery Street) has been identified as 38-year-old Dr. Daniel J. Kliman, an Alameda physician and "one of the Bay Area's foremost pro-Israel activists." more ›

A body was stuck in the Crunch Fitness/Academy of Art elevator on New Montgomerey over the weekend. Word is that the unidentified male or female died while trapped in the elevator. more ›

In the Tenderloin on Saturday night, three men were heatedly arguing in an apartment building over on the 400 block of Jones Street (at Ellis). During the fight, one man died after he suspiciously fell down an elevator shaft, landing on an elevator car several floor sbelow. So far the details are sketchy. Although the deceased is still unidentified (as well as the two men arrested in connection), he's described as being "in his 40s." more ›