Two Arrested After Gunfire Near Sam Altman's Home, Days After Molotov Attack April 13, 2026 - 6:10 pm Two people were arrested after shots were fired near Sam Altman's San Francisco home on Sunday, two days after a separate suspect threw a Molotov cocktail at the property and threatened to burn down OpenAI's headquarters. The attacks coincided with a critical New Yorker profile of the OpenAI CEO, who responded with a blog post calling for de-escalation of anti-AI rhetoric. Recent Incidents at Altman's Residence Two people have been arrested after a gun was discharged near Sam Altman's San Francisco home early on Sunday morning, the second security incident at the OpenAI chief executive's Russian Hill property in three days.
The San Francisco Police Department confirmed the arrests of Amanda Tom , 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein , 23, both booked on charges of negligent discharge of a firearm. Officers responding to reports of gunfire at around 1:40am on Sunday traced a vehicle to a nearby address, where Tom and Hussein were detained without incident. Three firearms were seized from the property.
According to the SF Standard , a Honda sedan with two occupants stopped in front of Altman's compound and the passenger appeared to fire a round on the Lombard Street side of the property. An OpenAI spokesperson, however, told Fox News Digital that the incident was unrelated to Altman and that there was no indication his home had been targeted. The SFPD has not publicly confirmed whether the shooting was directed at the property or coincidental.
Previous Incident The shooting came 48 hours after a far more serious attack. In the early hours of Friday, 20-year-old Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman's home, setting fire to an external gate. No one was injured.
Roughly an hour later, police arrested Moreno-Gama at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters, where he had allegedly gone to threaten to burn the building down. Moreno-Gama was charged with attempted murder, arson of an inhabited structure, criminal threats, and possession of an incendiary device. His writings on Substack , dating back to January, expressed what investigators described as an existential fear that artificial intelligence would lead to human extinction.
He had also been active in a Discord server run by PauseAI , a nonprofit that advocates for a temporary halt to frontier AI development. PauseAI issued a statement saying Moreno-Gama held no official role with the organization and had been banned from the server after the attack. A moderator had previously warned him that advocating violence was grounds for removal.
Context of the Attacks The attacks bookended the publication of a lengthy New Yorker investigation by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz , based on interviews with more than 100 people, that examined Altman's consolidation of power at OpenAI. Altman responded to both events in a Friday evening blog post that included a photograph of his husband and their child, a deliberate departure from his usual public persona.