Cole Valley residents struggle with mentally ill man’s reign of torment




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Summary: Deanna Hodgin vividly remembers the first time she saw him. She was eating hamburgers with her husband and their daughter, Claire, just 12 at the time, in a window seat at Kezar Bar & Restaurant. Suddenly, a man’s face appeared in the plate glass window, his eyes trained on Claire. “He was snarling and angry,” Hodgin recalled of that encounter six years ago. “Then he started masturbating.