The State - News from Dec. 14, 1988

A San Francisco district attorney’s investigator was hospitalized for observation after he apparently fired two gunshots while sitting in his Hall of Justice office. No one was injured, police said. Ronald Leon, 41, a 10-year veteran of the D.A.’s office, was “distraught” after two .38-caliber bullets were fired while he sat alone in his office cubicle, police spokesman Dave Ambrose said. Police would not speculate on whether the shooting was an attempted suicide. The district attorney’s office was investigating the incident as an accidental discharge of a weapon, Ambrose said. Officials who rushed to Leon’s cubicle said they “found him sitting at his desk in a daze,” Ambrose said. Leon was carried on a stretcher out of the office by paramedics and taken to San Francisco General Hospital.