- Suspects Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, were arrested and booked for negligent discharge after firing at Altman’s home from a Honda sedan.
- Police recovered three firearms after executing a search warrant at the suspects’ residence following the April 12 incident.
- The shooting came just two days after a separate Molotov cocktail attack; the first attacker remains in custody on attempted murder charges.
On April 12, 2026, San Francisco Police arrested two suspects in connection with what appeared to be a shooting at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Russian Hill residence.
According to SF Standard, a Honda sedan with two occupants stopped in front of Altman’s property around 1:40 AM, passed the residence a few minutes earlier, and then had a passenger lean out the window and fire a round on the Lombard side of the property. The car fled but surveillance cameras captured its license plate, leading police to take possession of the vehicle and eventually detain the suspects.
The arrests of Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, came just two days after a separate attack in which a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the same property. As reported by SFPD, both suspects were booked for negligent discharge under California Penal Code 246.3. Officers executed a search warrant at their residence and recovered three firearms.
Sam Altman Second Attack: Police Response and Investigation
Officers responded to the 2000 block of Taylor Street and detained Tom and Hussein without incident. SFPD Chief Derrick Lew stated: “The SFPD takes crimes involving guns extremely seriously, and anyone committing acts like these will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I want to thank our officers whose swift actions identified these suspects, took them into custody, and got dangerous weapons off our streets.” The investigation remains open and active.
The second attack comes amid heightened scrutiny of Altman and OpenAI following a highly critical New Yorker profile published days earlier. Altman had acknowledged the “fear and anxiety about AI is justified” in a blog post responding to the first attack, noting: “We are in the process of witnessing the largest change to society in a long time, and perhaps ever.” One might think that after a firebomb lands in your driveway, a strongly-worded magazine article ranks somewhere below “things likely to ruin your week.” Apparently not.
Neither OpenAI nor SFPD responded to requests for further comment. The first attacker, Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, 20, remains in custody on suspicion of attempted murder, arson, and possession or manufacture of an incendiary device.