Just a week after we were marking the one-year anniversary of the troublesome death of Feather Lynn a.k.a. Bryan Higgins, the Bay Area Reporter reveals that the city medical examiner has just, finally, ruled his death a homicide. The official cause of death is listed as "complications of ruptured cerebral artery aneurysm" stemming from an "assault" and "physical altercation." This has seemed obvious enough to everyone involved for many months now, but the medical examiner's ruling now allows police to pursue the person of interest in the case for questioning.

SFPD spokesman Officer Albie Esparza cautions that the man, who was seen in surveillance video in the midst of the fateful altercation with Higgins last August, is not yet considered a suspect (technically). But it is heartening to know that they at least seem to know who he is.

Higgins, a 31-year-old Radical Faerie and Castro neighborhood fixture, was, according to witnesses and friends, acting erratically the morning of August 10, 2014, as he had been the night before. He approached people standing in line for a free breakfast at St. Francis Lutheran Church (152 Church Street), antagonizing them with an apparently manic monologue about gender, and it was one of these people who stepped out of line and chased Higgins up the street, ultimately punching him and knocking him to the ground near the former Out of the Closet, across from the Safeway. He was found there shortly thereafter by police and EMTs, and he never regained consciousness. His family cut off life support three days later.

Previously: One Year On, No Apparent Progress In Feather Lynn Murder