42-year-old David DePape, the man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's house and attacking her husband Paul with a hammer, told police he wanted to hold the speaker hostage and 'break her kneecaps.' In addition to attempted murder charges, he now faces federal charges as well, including kidnapping.
and struck the Democratic leader’s 82-year-old husband in the head with a hammer. He was left seriously injured in the attack, underwent surgery for a skull fracture, and suffered other injuries to his arms and hands.
"At the time that the suspect had entered the Pelosi home that he was in fact, looking for Ms. Pelosi," Jenkins told reporters late Sunday in San Francisco."The other thing is we want to make it clear that there were only two people in the home at the time that the police arrived, Mr. Pelosi and the suspect, there was no third person present," she said.
The attack was an unsettling echo of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol, when rioters trying to overturn Joe Biden’s election defeat of Donald Trump stormed the halls eerily calling "Where’s Nancy?" DePape, was also
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