SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The jury has reached a verdict in the murder trial of Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old man who was killed in San Francisco’s De Anza neighborhood in 2021.
Antoine Watson is guilty of involuntary manslaughter and guilty of force likely to produce great bodily harm, but not guilty of murder in the first or second degree.
Vicha Ratanapakdee’s daughter told the I-Team’s Dan Noyes that she’s “disappointed and painful.”
It was five years ago this month “Grandpa Vicha” was attacked in San Francisco’s Anza Vista neighborhood.
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Surveillance video showed Watson running and then pushing Vicha to the ground.
He struck his head and died days later.
Watson was 19 at the time and testified he didn’t call 911 because he was scared the police would arrest him and panicked.
Vicha’s death became one of the flashpoints in the Stop Asian Hate movement during the pandemic.
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