People v. Rosales CA1/4

BACKGROUND

On September 23, 2019, the victim was shot and killed outside a 7- Eleven.2 The victim and defendant encountered each other in the store prior to the shooting. A surveillance video from the 7-Eleven showed that defendant purchased items prior to the shooting, and police obtained information from the credit card he used, which belonged to defendant’s girlfriend. Police conducted surveillance on defendant’s girlfriend’s home, saw defendant there, and then identified defendant by reviewing the 7- Eleven surveillance video. After initially denying any involvement during a police interrogation, defendant admitted shooting the victim but said he did so because the victim threatened him by telling defendant to leave him alone while the victim reached for his waist. At the time of the shooting, defendant lived with his girlfriend. In her police interview, she denied knowing anything about the shooting. When police showed up at her home at 2:00 a.m. the day after her interview and told her that defendant had admitted to shooting the victim, she told police that defendant told her he had shot someone. At trial, she testified that she lied to police when they came to her home,…