OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home appears to have been the target of a second attack Sunday morning, a mere two days after a 20-year-old man allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at the property, The Standard has learned.
According to an initial San Francisco Police Department report, at 1:40 a.m. a Honda sedan with two people inside stopped in front of Altman’s property, which stretches from Chestnut Street to Lombard Street, after having passed it a few minutes before.
The person in the passenger seat then put their hand out the window and appeared to have fired a round on the Lombard Street side of the property, according to a police report on the incident, which cited surveillance footage and the compound’s security who believe they heard a gunshot.
The car then fled, the camera captured its license plate, which later led police to take possession of the vehicle, according to the report.
No arrest has been made.
Neither OpenAI nor the San Francisco Police Department nor Open immediately responded to The Standard’s request for comment.
The previous attack happened Friday morning when a 20-year-old Texas man named Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama allegedly targeted Altman property from the north on Chestnut Street.
Around 3:40 a.m., he allegedly threw a bottle containing a flaming rag at the metal gate of 855 Chestnut St., according to a police report.
Security guards at the property extinguished the fire, and the incident was captured on surveillance cameras. The Standard has obtained the photo and blurred his face until conclusive identification can be made.
Shortly afterward, security personnel at OpenAI’s headquarters in Mission Bay made contact with a person matching the suspect’s description, according to the company. The individual made threatening statements about the building and was taken into custody by police.
No injuries were reported in either incident.
Moreno-Gama was booked into San Francisco County Jail Friday afternoon on suspicion of attempted murder, arson, possession or manufacture of an incendiary device, and other charges.
This is a developing story.