Mayor's Unexpected Death Rattles San Francisco

It was a most unexpected and unwelcome middle-of-the-night email. "It is with profound sadness and terrible grief that we confirm that Mayor Edwin M. Lee passed away on Tuesday, December 12, at 1:11am at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital," read the email sent from the mayor's office at 2:23am local time, reports the San Francisco Chronicle

"Family, friends, and colleagues were at his side. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife Anita, his two daughters, Brianna and Tania, and his family," it added. Lee was 65, and the death was sudden; no cause of death was provided, and the AP notes he was not known to be battling any sickness.

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