Mental Health Evaluation Ordered For Suspect In Horrific Murder Of Gay 23 Year Old Mexican Immigrant In San Francisco

An update on a previous post, the man accused of killing a San Francisco restaurant worker and burning his body in Buena Vista Park is being held in a hospital jail ward because of concerns about his mental state, authorities said Wednesday. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that 22 year old David Muñoz Diaz was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in the killing of openly gay 23 year old Freddy Roberto Canul-Arguello, but Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ross pushed his first court appearance to Friday and ordered a mental health evaluation. Diaz is being held on $5 million bail. He will be assigned a public defender when he is arraigned. Firefighters stumbled upon Canul-Arguello's body while responding to reports of a small brush fire in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood park early June 10. Canul-Arguello, an immigrant from Mexico, had spent the previous day working in the kitchen of Pi Bar on Valencia Street in the Mission District, said his brother, Ivan Canul-Arguello. After work, he went to a bar at Castro and Market streets, his brother said. The brother said Diaz was a friend of Canul-Arguello's, and that Diaz had told him he was with Canul-Arguello the last evening he was seen alive. Prosecutors have charged Diaz with murder, robbery, arson and mutilation of a body.