Champion cyclist Ethan Boyes was killed and former fire commissioner Don Carmignani was attacked this week in San Francisco, marking two more recent acts of violence against prominent individuals in the city alongside the death of entrepreneur Bob Lee in a stabbing.

Lee, who founded digital payments service CashApp and was the chief product officer of cryptocurrency startup MobileCoin upon his death, was visiting downtown San Francisco when he was stabbed in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The murder of the prominent businessman drew renewed attention toward crime and homelessness in San Francisco.

Michelle Tandler, the founder of Growth Path Labs and Thumbtack, as well as a frequent critic of leadership in San Francisco, noted on social media that Boyes was also killed and Carmignani was likewise attacked in the last few days.

Boyes was riding his bike on Tuesday afternoon when a car struck him on Arguello Boulevard after swerving across the center line. Police have not revealed whether the driver, who sustained injuries that were not life-threatening, was taken into custody or had been abusing drugs or alcohol.

Boyes was a USA Cycling Masters Track national champion in both 2018 and 2019; he held the national record for the 500-meter track time trial flying start.

“Ethan was a very experienced cyclist and well regarded in the cyclist community,” Shaana Rahman, a spokesperson for the family, said in a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle. “This is a pretty devastating loss for the family and for the San Francisco cycling community.”

Carmignani was attacked by a group of homeless people in front of his mother’s home at Laguna and Chestnut Street on Wednesday evening; one of the individuals beat the former fire commissioner with a pipe, leaving him with a fractured skull and other severe injuries. Carmignani was also slashed in the face with a knife.

Garret Doty, a 24-year-old, was later arrested in connection to the incident and booked on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and battery causing serious injury.

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“Our hearts go out to him and his family,” San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott remarked in a statement to CBS Bay Area. “He’s expected to survive his injuries which is good news. But these types of brutal attacks and these types of brazen attacks, these are the kinds of things that have people anxious.”

The number of arrests in San Francisco has fallen significantly over the past three years amid calls from prominent officials, including San Francisco Democratic Mayor London Breed, to defund law enforcement. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk and former UFC champion Jake Shields were among the well-known individuals who criticized San Francisco leadership over the death of Lee after news broke of his demise.

“San Francisco recently has a feeling of lawlessness I have never seen anywhere else. I see people doing drugs amidst piles of trash all over town. Speeding cars race recklessly through the city. Traffic stops have been discouraged, from what I understand,” Tandler added on social media. “In certain neighborhoods, any visible items can lure in a thief. Almost everywhere I walk I am avoiding trash and glass. It is not like this in other cities.”

A super PAC tied to former President Donald Trump has spent millions of dollars on ads attacking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Federal Election Commission records show.

A filing on Friday revealed that Make America Great Again spent $1.5 million on Friday for “placed media: TV” opposing “Ronald Dion DeSantis,” in addition to a similar amount paid last week. The money was paid to Multi Media Services, based in Alexandria, Virginia.

The super PAC is run by top aides to Trump and received money from his campaign coffers, though now that he has an official campaign for president in the 2024 election cycle, it is required to operate independently. The MAGA committee had $54 million on hand at the end of last year.

The attack on the fellow Republican comes even as DeSantis has not declared candidacy for the presidency, and as Trump faces criminal charges from a leftist prosecutor in New York.

The ad faults DeSantis for voting to cut Social Security and Medicare while he was in Congress. “The more you learn about DeSantis, the more you see he just doesn’t share our values,” the ad says.

The ad will run on CNN and Fox News, according to AdImpact, NBC reported.

Although DeSantis now says he would leave those entitlement programs alone, he voted for non-binding resolutions in 2013, 2014, and 2015 while serving in the House that recommended raising the retirement age to 70 and reducing benefits for some. Trump’s own final budget proposal as president included cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare, the former by $845 billion over the following decade.

Both Medicare and Social Security could be insolvent in the next decade if reforms are not made, according to budget projections. Both parties agree that hard choices will have to be made to avoid the prospect of younger people not being able to get any benefits at all.

On the same day as the first ad buy, the annual Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports were released, showing that the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will cease being able to pay full benefits in 2031, and the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund will become insolvent in 2033. Those cliffs would come just a few years after the next president’s term in office, and the options include raising taxes, cutting benefits, or raising the retirement age given increasing life expectancies. If the problem is ignored, the country could hit a devastating financial crisis.