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Final update. Here's the rap sheet, from Local Crime News, which scrapes the Sacramento County Sheriff's booking log directly.

Emmanuel Smith, 32. Black male

23 arrests since 2018. That's roughly one every four months for eight years straight. Of those 23:

- 3 for assault with a deadly weapon (2023, 2024, and the hammer attack in 2026)
- 1 for attempted robbery (2020), almost certainly the felony that sent him to state prison and put him on PRCS
- 1 for attempted burglary (2019)
- 2 for drug possession
- 1 for theft of building fixtures (likely copper)
- 1 for public intoxication and resisting arrest
- 14 for skipping court, violating his release terms, or being picked up on old warrants

He was on Post-Release Community Supervision when he attacked Bella with a hammer at 5 AM. He'd been arrested five separate times in 2025 alone for violating that supervision. The system kept catching him and kept letting him out.

Three assault with a deadly weapon arrests. The third one was a 22-year-old woman's face.

Verify yourself:

https://www.localcrimenews.com/welcome/detail/89514727/emmanuel-smith-arrest.html

11 days ago I posted about the hammer attack on a female valet in midtown. Original post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sacramento/comments/1sp18p2/female\_valet\_attendant\_face\_smashed\_by\_homeless/

. It got taken down for the crime of saying a disheveled guy in a COVID mask hammering a woman in the face at 5 AM looked homeless. Apparently that’s a wild leap.

The comments went off the rails. Suddenly the story wasn’t a 22-year-old getting hit in the face with a hammer at work, it was me, for daring to call the obvious thing obvious. Someone even claimed to have “found” his house in Rancho Cordova.

She was working the overnight shift at the Sheraton Grand valet stand on J Street. Standard shift at a downtown business hotel — 5 AM is when guests start leaving for early flights.

I filed a public records request. Sac PD responded today.

Suspect is Emmanuel Smith, 32. He was on Post-Release Community Supervision at the time of the attack — meaning he’d recently been released from state prison for a felony and was being supervised by county probation under AB 109. He’s now being held without bail on the PRCS revocation plus assault with a deadly weapon and assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury.

Sac PD’s own narrative, twice, verbatim:
“The victim was hit in the head with a hammer by a person experiencing homelessness.”
Page attached. Victim’s name and the suspect’s DOB are redacted.