San Francisco sheriff says feds to blame in immigrant shooting case

San Francisco's sheriff strongly defended his department's release of an undocumented immigrant who allegedly went on to kill a woman, saying Friday the blame should be on federal officials who failed to take the proper steps to keep him in custody.

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's comments continued the finger-pointing in the case of Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a seven-time felon who had been deported to Mexico five times, according to immigration officials.

Lopez-Sanchez is charged with murder in the random shooting death of a woman in San Francisco this month -- a...