He was shot three times and then struck by fragments from a hand grenade heaved at him in October 1967 while in combat at Quang Tre, the northernmost province of South Vietnam.Ī round shattered his upper left leg, while the grenade fragments were embedded in his upper left arm. William Porter was nearly killed while serving as a Marine Corps combat photographer in Vietnam. "It's tragic for the person who had the gun, who will have to live with it forever it is tragic for this young man who has no life." "To me, it's a tragedy with a capital T," Pera said. "They are both artists, both loved the city, both loved that area, both were comfortable there," Pera said. In some ways, Porter and Lim embody the clash of old versus new, East versus West, established art versus counterculture.īut in many respects, "the victim and our suspect are more similar than they are different," said San Francisco police Inspector Holly Pera, who handled the case.
Nine months after the incident, the San Francisco grand jury is weighing evidence to resolve the differing accounts of what happened and either charge or exonerate Porter in the death of the 18-year-old tagger. The lone witness to the confrontation was a Tenderloin woman who later told police that the young man shouted, "Hold on!" seconds before being fatally wounded. He pointed his gun, and it went off when the man grabbed it, Porter said. Porter, 51, told police he thought an intruder was trying to come through his window.
In March, the two were thrust into a split-second confrontation outside the second-story window of Porter's Tenderloin loft that left one of them dead and the other under suspicion.
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