A homeless drug addict with a long rap sheet is accused of beating a woman to death just months after a judge sent him into a diversion program for another violent crime, police sources and court records show.

Police say 45-year-old Cassidy Wyatt Allen was arrested hours after officers discovered a gravely injured woman inside her home on the 200 block of Granada Avenue around 3:04 p.m. Sunday.

Despite “life-saving efforts by first responders and medical personnel,” the woman was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a statement from SFPD.

Cassidy Allen (pictured) was booked into San Francisco County Jail on suspicion of murder and burglary. Del Norte Sheriff's Office

Investigators didn’t have to search for long to find Allen, a separate welfare check was called in that brought t

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