Tidd

BACKGROUND

The Shooting and Investigation At approximately midnight on October 7, 2020, the victim of defendant’s crimes left his friend’s apartment in San Francisco to walk home. He had been drinking and was intoxicated. According to surveillance footage, a white sport utility vehicle (SUV) drove past the victim and then backed up to where he was walking on the sidewalk. The driver got out of the SUV and spoke briefly with the victim. When the driver got back into the SUV, the victim raised his middle fingers as the SUV drove away. The driver then quickly and erratically returned in the victim’s direction. Two gunshots were fired, the second hitting the victim in his leg. The victim remembered no details about this altercation or the shooting. Other witnesses saw the SUV speed away, but did not see the driver or whether the vehicle had other occupants. Witnesses could not identify the make, model, or license plate number of the SUV, but police issued a bulletin seeking the vehicle as depicted on the surveillance video: a large, white Mercedes SUV with silver metallic rims. Investigators also located a nine-millimeter Luger cartridge case, manufactured by Speer, on the street…