People v. Ralls CA1/1

BACKGROUND

In April 2007, Terry Griffin, Lamart Scoggins, Willie Lewis, and Shea Bradford were hanging out in front of Willie’s house in Oakland, when Scoggins noticed a green Buick driving slowly down the street. The car had

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1 tinted windows, was driving “suspicious,” and stopped just past where Scoggins and his group were standing. Griffin stated there were two people inside the car, the driver, who he identified as Rashaud Richardson,2 and the front seat passenger. When the passenger door opened, the first thing Griffin noticed was the passenger was holding a black, semiautomatic handgun or “Mac-11,” with what he thought was an extended clip. He was not sure if the driver had a gun. Griffin ran. When he turned around, he saw a “muzzle flash” but was not sure if it was coming from the passenger’s gun. He got a few blocks away, and was alone. When he returned to the scene, he saw Bradford “laying on the ground,” bleeding. Bradford had been shot in the back of the head, and there was a “lot of blood on the ground.” Griffin was aware of “an altercation a couple years back” between Richardson…