Shopper body-slammed and groped, two workers punched in San Francisco Trader Joe’s attack
A felon accused of sexually assaulting a young woman in a downtown San Francisco Trader Joe’s last week and then attacking two female employees will stay in jail after being denied bail.
Prosecutors say Quincy Millican pounced on the 22-year-old in the early evening of October 2 while she was shopping at the grocery outlet at 4th and Market streets.
According to court documents, he grabbed the woman, “body slammed” and pinned her to the ground, then molested her.
“The defendant put his hands aggressively down the back of her tight spandex athletic shorts, moved his hand around and felt her bare buttocks, then sequeezed for 5-6 seconds,” said assistant district attorney Katherine Wells, describing witness descriptions of the incident in a motion to detain.
Another customer intervened and shoved the attacker away from the victim, prompting him to run around the store assaulting staff members. He ran up to a woman bagging customers’ groceries at a check stand and punched her in the head, before punching another female employee, causing her to fall and smash her head on the cash register. She was later diagnosed with concussion.
“Victims and witnesses noted that there were plenty of men in the store within striking distance of defendant and he chose only to assault women,” Wells said.
Millican, 47, was arrested for indecent exposure in 2014, sexual battery with restraint in 2016, attempted forcible sexual penetration, assault with intent to commit a sex offense and sexual battery, also in 2016, and sexual battery in 2019.
He was also detained for being a ‘Peeping Tom’ in Louisiana in 1998.
He has been convicted only once in California, of assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury, in 2022, which was pleaded down from a sex assault offense.
Judge John Echeverria ordered Millican detained at his initial appearance on October 6. He has not yet entered a plea to charges of sexual battery by restraint, false imprisonment and three counts of assault likely to cause great bodily injury.
The case continues.
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