SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - The man accused in the shooting death of a woman on Pier 14 in San Francisco had been deported five times and has seven felony convictions, a federal agency said on Friday. 
 
 Francisco Sanchez is in the San Francisco County Jail on homicide charges for the death of 32-year-old Kate Steinle. Police said the shooting appeared to be random. 
 
 Immigration and Customs Enforcement Press Secretary Gillian Christensen said Sanchez had been previously deported five times, most recently in 2009. His criminal history includes seven prior felony convictions, four involving narcotics charges and three for illegal re-entry, and minor offenses that date back to 1991. 
 
 Christensen said the latest encounter with Sanchez occurred in March when he was remanded to ICE’s custody after serving a multi-year federal prison sentence for felony re-entry after deportation. He was turned over to local authorities in San Francisco for an outstanding drug warrant. 
 
 Part of a statement reads: 
 
 “DHS records indicate ICE lodged an immigration detainer on the subject at that time, requesting notification prior to his release so ICE officers could make arrangements to take custody. The detainer was not honored.” 
 
 The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department said Sanchez was booked in county jail for the drug-related warrant, but a judge dismissed the marijuana charge the next day. 
 
 The statement goes on to say: 
 
 “SFSD began confirming that Mr. Lopez-Sanchez’s federal prison time had been completed. At the time Mr. Lopez-Sanchez was booked, federal transportation orders reflected two conflicting release dates. SFSD verified that Mr. Lopez-Sanchez completed his federal prison sentence and was lawfully released from federal prison March 26, 2015. Once the SFSD confirmed that Mr. Lopez-Sanchez’s federal prison time had been completed and that he had no active warrants, he was released from San Francisco County Jail on April 15, 2015.” 
 
 Despite the detainer, the department said Sanchez had no active warrant from ICE and there was not a judicial order of removal for him. The department’s policy is to not notify ICE of a person’s release if they do not have any active warrants and they will not change the policy in light of this incident. 
 
 The department offered their condolences to the family and friend of Steinle. 
 
 Sanchez remains in the San Francisco County Jail and charges against him could come as early as Monday. 

 San Francisco (CNN) Kate Steinle was walking on a busy pier in San Francisco with her father when there was a single popping sound in the air. 
 
 She fell to the ground, struck by a bullet, the victim of what police say appears to be a random killing. 
 
 The man accused of firing the deadly shot -- 45-year-old Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez -- is an undocumented immigrant, a repeat felon who has been deported five times to Mexico, according to immigration officials. 
 
 It would have been six, a federal law enforcement source told CNN, except authorities in San Francisco wanted him on a drug-related warrant. 
 
 So U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which had Lopez-Sanchez in its custody in March after his release from federal prison, turned him over to San Francisco deputies. ICE said they requested an immigration detainer, asking that the agency be notified before Lopez-Sanchez was released. 
 
 But San Francisco is a city that doesn't honor such requests and the sheriff's department released him. Freya Horne, chief legal counsel to the San Francisco County Sheriff, told CNN that he was let go because there was no legal cause to detain the suspect. 
 
 On Wednesday evening, he shot the 31-year-old Steinle at Pier 14 once in her upper body, according to police. He was found about a mile away an hour later and arrested. CNN could not determine on Friday if he has an attorney. 
 
 Family: She was loving, smart, beautiful 
 
 Steinle's father told the San Francisco Chronicle there was one pop and his daughter fell to the ground. 
 
 Video shows several people trying to help the young woman. 
 
 Kate Steinle 
 
 "She just kept saying, 'Dad, help me, help me,'" Liz Sullivan, the victim's mother, told CNN affiliate KRON 
 
 Steinle, a medical device salesperson, died at San Francisco General Hospital. Sullivan said her heart stopped twice on the way to the hospital and she died during surgery. 
 
 "She fought for her life," Sullivan said. "They said how strong she was but they just couldn't save her." 
 
 Family members called her loving, smart and beautiful. Her cousin said she loved her mother and father "more than anything." 
 
 Several of the dozen or more people on the pedestrian pier took photos of the suspect and showed them to police. 
 
 Suspect had seven felony convictions 
 
 ICE said it turned Lopez-Sanchez over to San Francisco authorities on March 26 for an outstanding drug warrant. The agency requested an immigration detainer, but Horne said San Francisco officials believe that violates Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures. 
 
 The sheriff's office said, "When Mr. Lopez-Sanchez was booked into the jail, there was no active Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) warrant or judicial order of removal for him." 
 
 The department would have returned Lopez-Sanchez if there had been a court order or warrant, it said. 
 
 Charges were dropped March 27 but Lopez-Sanchez was held until April 15 while the sheriff's office determined there were no other warrants for his arrest and he had completed his federal prison sentence. 
 
 According to KRON, San Francisco's policy on undocumented immigrants "states that a law enforcement official shall not detain an individual on the basis of a civil immigration detainer after that individual becomes eligible for release from custody." 
 
 The federal law enforcement source told CNN the sheriff's department "didn't even need to hold him. They simply could have notified that they were going to release him and we would have gotten him." 
 
 Police said Lopez-Sanchez last lived in Texas, where he was on probation. ICE said Lopez-Sanchez has seven felony convictions, four for drug offenses. His most recent deportation was in 2009. 
 
 He was released from federal prison in March after serving several years for felony re-entry after deportation. 
 
 Lopez-Sanchez is in San Francisco County Jail and faces a homicide charge. ICE has requested another immigration detainer.
– The man accused of murdering a woman in San Francisco this week is an undocumented immigrant who's been deported five times—and nearly got kicked out again earlier this year, CNN reports. Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, 45, is in jail and faces a murder charge for the shooting death of 31-year-old Kate Steinle, who was shot seemingly at random on a pedestrian pier Wednesday. Turns out US Immigration and Customs Enforcement was about to deport Lopez-Sanchez again in March, but gave him to the San Francisco County Sheriff over a drug-related warrant, says a source in federal law enforcement. That's when the story took an unexpected turn. The sheriff let Lopez-Sanchez go, saying he had already served his time for felony re-entry after deportation and had no outstanding warrants, KTVU reports. The sheriff also ignored ICE's request to detain him and send a notice before freeing Lopez-Sanchez—because city officials see "immigration detainers" as violations of the right against unreasonable searches and seizures, according to the sheriff's legal counsel. Lopez-Sanchez already has seven felony convictions, including four for drug offenses, and was on probation in Texas. The sheriff "didn't even need to hold him," the law enforcement source says. "They simply could have notified that they were going to release him and we would have gotten him."