A dog walker found a woman’s body stuffed inside a duffel bag Sunday at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, according to a report.
Police identified the 37-year-old victim as Kelly (Brock) Koike, according to ABC 7 News. Koike was homeless and mentally ill on the streets of San Francisco, according to her mother, Roya Koike, the outlet reported. She graduated from culinary school and worked as a concierge. However, her mental illness soon overtook her, according to the outlet. (RELATED: Businesses Are Fleeing San Francisco In Droves, Leaving The City Devastated As Crime, Drug Use Runs Wild)
“Yesterday, they found your daughter in a duffel bag. A dog walker found her. I know deep down in her, without this part here,” Roya said, pointing to her head, “She’s a good girl. She has a messed up here, but she got killed?”
The incident is considered to be a suspicious death by police, the outlet reported. An investigation took place late Sunday night at Golden Gate Park, however a suspect has not yet been identified or arrested.
“The police officers came to our front door and asked if we had camera footage, and that’s how I found out,” Michele Hunnewell, a neighbor, said. “And of course, I was shocked because this isn’t that kind of neighborhood normally. But yeah, it was very sad and very shocking and I’m disappointed that that had to happen on a nice weekend.”
Roya worried about her daughter’s safety and wished she would have received treatment for her mental illness.
“Very sad, it’s so sad, she was, I know I’m the mother, but I show you pictures. She was knockout gorgeous, I mean she was beautiful,” Roya reportedly said.
A new walking tour in San Francisco offers visitors an up close look at the city’s open air drug markets and homelessness crisis. The “Doom Loop Walking Tour” was created to show tourists the consequences of “policy choices that made America’s wealthiest city the nation’s innovative leader of housing crisis, addiction crisis, mental-health crisis, & unrepentant crime crisis,” according to its guide. (RELATED: ‘There’s Too Many Of Us’: Dealers Scoff At Any Attempts To Reduce Drug Use In San Francisco Streets)
Numerous businesses, including retail stores and big corporations, left California recently as crime and drug use skyrocketed. The mass exodus has cost San Francisco hundreds of millions per year.