San Francisco police arrested Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, after a Honda sedan stopped outside Sam Altman’s property at 1:40 a.m. Sunday and the passenger appeared to fire a round from the Lombard side of the home.
Police said the report was based on surveillance footage and security personnel who heard a gunshot. The motorists fled, a camera captured the car’s license plate and officers later took possession of the vehicle after identifying it from the plate. Tom and Hussein were detained without incident in the 2000 block of Taylor Street, and a search of the residence turned up three firearms.
The arrest came two days after a separate attack on the same property. On Friday around 3:40 a.m., Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama allegedly threw a bottle containing a flaming rag at the metal gate outside Altman’s home. Security guards extinguished the fire after the attack, and OpenAI said security personnel later made contact with a person matching the suspect’s description at its Mission Bay headquarters. That individual made threatening statements about the building and was taken into custody by police.
Moreno-Gama was booked Friday afternoon into San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder, arson, possession or manufacture of an incendiary device and other charges. No injuries were reported in either incident. After the first attack, Altman said the fear and anxiety about AI was justified and that society was in the middle of the largest change it had seen in a long time, and perhaps ever.
The back-to-back episodes point to a home that appears to have been targeted twice in less than a weekend. Police have not said what connected the two incidents, but the timing has turned a private residence into the center of a public security concern tied to one of the tech industry’s most closely watched figures.
