Paul Pelosi attack: David DePape says he wanted to hurt others - The Washington Post

Comment on this storyA man who said he was the suspect in last year’s hammer attack on Paul Pelosi expressed regret in a phone call from jail to a California TV station — not that he almost killed his victim, but that he didn’t hurt more people.

David DePape, 42, is jailed on state and federal charges related to the Oct. 28 attack on Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s husband at their San Francisco home.

On Friday, Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU received a call from the San Francisco jail, according to reporter Amber Lee.

The phone call came hours after authorities released evidence including the police body-camera footage from the night of the attack at the Pelosis’ home in the posh Pacific Heights neighborhood.

The attack on Pelosi, which took place a few days before the midtermelection that would lead to Democrats losing control of the House, is widely considered an act of political violence.

DePape told Lee that freedom and liberty in the United States were “being killed systematically and deliberatively,” and that he found “names and addresses” of those he deemed responsible.