Parole agents were told to ignore felon — before he killed SF woman on meth-fueled crime spree: attorney

Source: New York Post

Famed Bay Area personal injury attorney Anh Phoong has accused California’s parole division of causing the death of Hanako Abe, a 27-year-old San Francisco woman who was killed by parolee Troy McAlister on New Year’s Eve 2020 — in a new legal filing that cites a whistleblower email from a person inside the state agency. Phoong filed a wrongful death claim Wednesday — a precursor to a lawsuit — alleging that the Department Of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s parole division ignored a Dec. 29 plea from the Daly City Police Department to help locate McAlister, who was suspected of committing a violent carjacking while out on parole.