Woman in wheelchair attacked in S.F. by knife-wielding man

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A 58-year-old woman sitting in a wheelchair was attacked Sunday and slashed multiple times in the neck by a knife-wielding man in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, police said.

The woman was sitting in her wheelchair at Ninth and Mission streets when she was attacked about 5:30 p.m., leaving her with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.

The suspect, a 25-year-old man, allegedly approached and cut the woman’s neck multiple times with a kitchen knife but was later arrested, police said.

Hamed Aleaziz is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: haleaziz@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @haleaziz