A 67-year-old man was grabbed by the neck and dragged out of a stall in a first-floor bathroom at St. Francisco Memorial Hospital in Nob Hill earlier this week. The 41-year-old suspect reportedly followed the man into the restroom, grabbed him and punched him in the head while demanding money.

According to the Examiner, Hospital security heard the screams and managed to stop him from taking off and detain him until police arrived. The suspect, Damon Walker was in violation of probation and charged with elder abuse, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. The "deadly weapon" here was Walker's brute strength. As SFPD spokesman Albie Esparza put it: "A lot of times someone doesn’t have to have an actual weapon to be charged with using one during an assault. In this case, the suspect was significantly younger and much taller, which is why we gave him that charge." They've been going hard on the deadly weapon charges lately. One more and it'll be a trend.

Thankfully, the victim was already in a hospital, so he was treated onsite for the fractures he suffered to his face.

[SFEx]