A San Francisco jury has convicted a 55-year-old man of driving his SUV into a man asleep on a mattress on a Tenderloin sidewalk, dragging him beneath the vehicle and then reversing and speeding off — a hit-and-run for which prosecutors say he was arrested twice with methamphetamine and cocaine in the space of six weeks.

The conviction of Patrick Davis, announced August 6 by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, turned on a chilling detail: prosecutors say Davis walked past the sleeping victim just minutes before getting into his Chevrolet Tahoe and running him over. It is also a snapshot of who bears the brunt of street violence in San Francisco's densest, poorest neighborhood — an unhoused man sleeping on the pavement — and of a defendant who, despite two drug arrests on the same block, remains free ahead of an August 14 sentencing.

According to testimony and other evidence presented at trial, the crash happened around 11 a.m. on June 11, 2025, on Eddy Street near Mason Street — in the heart of the Tenderloin. Davis had walked past a man sleeping on a mattress parked in front of his 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe only minutes earlier, prosecutors said. He then got into the SUV, drove it into the man, dragging him underneath the vehicle, reversed, and drove off without stopping. The victim suffered abrasions and severe trauma to the cartilage and bone of his right knee.

With the help of the Police Department's Real Time Investigation Center, officers found Davis and his vehicle in the same area about three hours later, at roughly 1:50 p.m. At the time of that arrest, prosecutors said, Davis was carrying 10.9 grams of methamphetamine and 3.1 grams of cocaine base.

He did not stay away from the block. On July 21, 2025, officers arrested Davis again on Eddy near Mason, this time with 7.1 grams of methamphetamine and 3.6 grams of cocaine base, according to the DA's Office. The jury convicted him of one count of hit-and-run driving causing injury, two counts of possessing methamphetamine, and two counts of possessing cocaine base.

"I would like to thank the jury for their service in this trial and holding Mr. Davis accountable for his crimes," Jenkins said in a statement. "I am also grateful to the San Francisco Police for making a quick arrest following this incident that resulted in serious injury to the victim."

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney André A. Guiulfo. "I am deeply grateful to the jury for their careful attention to the evidence," Guiulfo said in the DA's statement.

The severity of the underlying injury is easy to lose behind the dry language of a traffic charge. The person who was hit, prosecutors said, was doing nothing but sleeping on a mattress when the SUV rolled into him, leaving him with lasting damage to his right knee.

Davis, convicted on five counts and twice arrested with drugs on the same corner, remains out of custody, according to the DA's Office. His sentencing is scheduled for August 14, when a judge will weigh how much time the hit-and-run and possession convictions carry. Prosecutors have not publicly identified the victim.