People v. Elahi CA4/2

I.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1

Responding to an emergency call in Twentynine Palms, police found Jonas

bleeding from gunshot wounds to his upper thigh, right arm above the elbow, and left leg

below the knee. Jonas told the officers he had been shot by “Brianna’s new boyfriend,

Chuck[y].” Brianna’s trailer was next to the property where the officers had found Jonas.

Officers found Jonas’s four-wheel “quad” motorcycle outside Brianna’s trailer. They

also found blood stains on the carpet leading into the trailer and a jacket inside the trailer

that had a bloody hole in a sleeve that corresponded to the bullet wound on Jonas’s arm.

1 Because defendant’s claims of error relate solely to his convictions and sentence on counts 1 and 2 for the attempted murder of and assault with a deadly weapon on Jonas, we need not recount the facts related to defendant’s additional convictions.

2 A detective interviewed Jonas at the hospital. Jonas told the detective he had gone

to his ex-girlfriend Brianna’s trailer because he had learned Brianna was telling people he

had died. When he arrived, Jonas saw Chucky there. Jonas recognized Chucky from

Facebook, had seen him once before at…