India, Dec. 8 -- A longtime social worker at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital died over the weekend after being stabbed multiple times by a patient during a Thursday afternoon attack inside the facility's HIV/AIDS clinic, authorities and colleagues said.

The victim, identified by colleagues and community members as 51-year-old Alberto Rangel, a UCSF (University of California, San Francisco) social worker, succumbed to his injuries on Saturday, according to the San Francisco Sheriff's Office. ABC News reported that he had been described by coworkers as "remarkable", "compassionate", and deeply devoted to patients.

Police said the suspect, 34-year-old Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi, allegedly used a five-inch kitchen knife to st...