Hughey

FACTS

Abdul Razai was employed at the AT&T store in Camarillo, California. He and two other store workers, Carlos Molina and Renan Lansang, the manager, were closing the store, pulling down the metal gates on the window and turning off the phones. Razai saw three people enter the store. One of them, Damien Barron, ran toward him with a gun, followed by the two others, Hughey and Dillard. He heard one of them say, “Put your hands up,” and another one said, “[W]e want the phones.” The three employees followed the defendants’ instructions and unlocked two doors leading to the back of the store. The defendants told the employees to move to the back safe room area, and one said, “Open the safe.” When the employees entered the small safe room, Razai became more fearful. The defendants were shouting different instructions and he did not know which instruction to follow. He believed he was more likely to be injured in the safe room because it was a small area normally occupied by no more than two people. He could not escape, and he felt if he made the wrong move, he would be shot. He was given a bag and he followed the defendants’ instructions about which phones they wanted him to take…