David DePape is accused in a hammer assault on Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, at their San Francisco home. He posted conspiracy theories online.
David DePape, 42, was identified by police Friday as the suspect in the assault on Paul Pelosi at the speaker's San Francisco home.
"I really don't know what to think," the suspect's uncle, Mark DePape, said of his nephew's alleged attack on Pelosi. "Hopefully it's a scam. I don't want to hear something like that." Two days after former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of killing George Floyd, DePape wrote that the trial was "a modern lynching," falsely indicating that Floyd died of a drug overdose.
Two former acquaintances of DePape's in California told CNN he exhibited concerning behavior over the years.