Two men have been captured in connection with the attempted robbery that left San Francisco’s famous private investigator Jack Palladino fighting for his life, and Palladino himself helped make the breakthrough of the case, they reported. the police and the family.
Authorities on Sunday identified the suspects in the Jan. 28 attack as Lawrence Thomas of Pittsburg, 24, and Tyjone Flournoy, 23, of San Francisco.
Both were arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery, aggravated kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy, false imprisonment and ill-treatment of the elderly, as well as an improvement for allegedly causing extensive bodily harm to Palladino, it reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
Police made the arrests in the case after photographs were recovered from Palladino’s camera that the suspects tried to steal.
Palladino, who worked on high-profile cases, including Jonestown’s mass suicides of celebrities and political scandals involving clients such as former President Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein, had grabbed the camera and left the house he shares with his woman to take pictures just before the violence.
“He went out to take pictures of people doing mischief in the neighborhood,” Sandra Sutherland’s wife and detective partner, Palladino, told the newspaper.
While Palladino was shooting outside, the suspects got into a car and one tried to steal his camera, according to his family.
“He was shot dead [with the car] and they tried to get the camera, which they couldn’t do, “Sutherland said, adding,” Because Jack wouldn’t let go. “
Palladino was dragged and fell and his head hit the pavement before falling unconscious, his stepson Nick Chapman told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The private detective was hospitalized and operated on after suffering a head injury. Palladino, who remained unconscious, had his life support removed and was breathing on his own, but was not expected to survive, Sutherland said.
Sutherland said she did not know what her husband’s photos show, but police “found the evidence to be very helpful in arresting these two people.”
Although Palladino remained unconscious, she gave him the good news.
“I said,‘ Guess what, Jack, the bastards got, and it was all yours, ’” Sutherland told the press.
“Jack is a hard person to keep,” he said. “But I really think that’s it.”
Prior to the attack, Palladino was finishing one last case before joining his retired wife, Chapman said.
Since the 1980s, Palladino and his wife have been conducting investigations outside their Victorian home in the city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
His famous clients include Don Johnson, Kevin Costner, Robin Williams, Huey Newton and Snoop Dogg.
Clinton hired Palladino during his 1992 campaign to help discredit women who claimed extramarital affairs with him. Courtney Love hired Palladino to talk to reporters investigating whether she played a role in the 1994 death of her husband, rock star Kurt Cobain.
His career began even before he graduated from law school at the University of California, Berkeley, when Patty Hearst’s family hired him to help him investigate his abduction from the Symbolic Liberation Party. (1974).
With publishing cables