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Where does the buck stop on Kathryn Steinle’s death?

By Susan Crabtree
Published July 13, 2015 4:01am ET
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Where does the buck stop on Kathryn Steinle’s death?
Francisco Sanchez, right, is lead into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, left, and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 in San Francisco. Prosecutors have charged the Mexican immigrant with murder in the waterfront shooting death of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, Pool) | Michael Macor

The White House and the Obama administration spent the week passing the buck on the death of a 32-year-old San Francisco woman by an illegal immigrant who had a long criminal record and had already been deported five times.

Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez allegedly used a federal agent’s missing firearm to shoot and kill Kathryn Steinle, 32, as she was causally enjoying a walk with her father on a San Francisco pier.

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