In re Luis G. CA4/3

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In the early morning hours of July 4, 2021, Luis2 and Tomas Pantaleon were standing outside the front doors of a 7-Eleven in Santa Ana. 3 The store was in an area known as Krazy Proud Criminals (KPC) territory. Victor C. tried to enter the store. Either Luis or Tomas said, “‘Oh, I recognize him,’” referring to Victor C., who had never seen either of them

1 Subsequent statutory references are to the Penal Code.

2 Luis was later identified from a surveillance video by a detective

who had prior contacts with him. 3 The court found the counts based on this incident not true as to

Luis. We provide this summary by way of background.

2 before. Tomas and Luis attacked Victor C., and he suffered multiple stab wounds. Tomas and Luis left the scene in a white SUV. Victor C. was hospitalized for about a month. At the time of the incident, he wore a Detroit Tigers baseball cap. According to him, the letter “D” on the cap represented not only the baseball team, but Delhi, the neighborhood where he was raised. Delhi was also a street gang with which he had been affiliated, but he denied active gang membership at the time of the incident. He did not…