DA charges man with 5 murder counts in SF killings


March 28, 2012 at 2:45p.m.

DA charges man with 5 murder counts in SF killings

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prosecutors have filed murder charges against a man accused of killing five people inside a San Francisco home.

Court documents show that 35-year-old Binh Thai Luc was charged today with five counts of murder with special circumstances of committing multiple murders, robbery, burglary and lying in wait.

Those enhancements make Luc eligible for the death penalty if convicted, though prosecutors have not yet decided whether to pursue that sentence.

The Vietnam native was arrested Sunday after five bodies were found at a crime scene so gruesome and complex that authorities took days to identify the victims and a suspect. The victims were a married couple, their adult children and the son’s girlfriend.

The court documents say a blunt instrument was used in the killings but gave no other details.