Diner at San Francisco restaurant discovers body in Bay

By Adam Martin, Bay City News Service

February 8, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) - A diner at a San Francisco waterfront restaurant this morning discovered the body of a man floating near Pier 28.

The diner was eating at about 11 a.m., according to San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens, and saw the body floating outside the window of the restaurant.

Police received a 911 call and dispatched a boat, the crew of which retrieved the body from the bay, Gittens said.

The still-unidentified body is that of a man aged 25 to 40, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighing 175 pounds, Gittens said.

The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office reported that the body has not yet been positively identified, and that it has not yet determined whether the death was the result of a homicide.

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