People v. Daniels CA4/2

facts as aggravating. We affirm, as substantial evidence supports the jury’s decision

Daniels was not acting in lawful self-defense or defense of another, and there was no

prejudicial sentencing error.

FACTS

In March 2023, Daniels’ granddaughter Shamya Daniels (S.D.) was 20 years old.

S.D. worked for a security company. Two of the people S.D. had supervised as a shift

lead were 18-year-old Tyjaih Powers and 20-year-old Tianna Ferguson. Powers and S.D.

did not get along. In February or early March 2023, after seven or eight months of

working together, Powers and S.D. had a verbal argument that culminated in an exchange

of “fighting words.” Powers was first suspended, and then fired from the security

company. S.D., too, was fired from the security company.

2 Powers and S.D. continued to communicate, exchanging text messages and phone

calls that escalated again to mutual invitations to fight. The renewed fighting words did

not include threats expressly involving weapons. Powers, for example, threatened to

“beat [S.D.’s] ass” and said she did not care if she went to jail for doing so.

On March 19, 2023, Powers and Ferguson, who were friends, went to the

shopping center…