On the afternoon of 31 December 2020, as San Francisco prepared to celebrate the first New Year’s Eve of the pandemic, Troy McAlister drove a stolen car through a red light in the city’s SoMa neighborhood and hit another vehicle.
The collision sent McAlister’s car crashing into two women who were crossing the street. Hanako Abe, a 27-year-old real estate analyst, and Elizabeth Platt, a 60-year-old radio DJ who was struggling with homelessness, did not survive the hit.
