People v. Armour CA3

BACKGROUND

A. Underlying Facts and Charges On April 3, 2021, neighbors J.C.1 and D.M. stood on the sidewalk outside their homes, talking to each other. As they were talking, defendant drove his truck around the corner and onto their street at a high rate of speed, the truck’s tires squealing. Defendant sped to the end of the cul-de-sac and turned around. As he sped past the neighbors again, D.M. yelled, “[s]low the fuck down.” Defendant “[s]lammed on the brakes.” J.C. heard defendant scream, “I’ll kill you . . . . I’ll air you out.” Then he saw defendant “put [a] gun out of the window.” J.C. took a picture of the gun and told defendant he was going to jail. As defendant sped off, J.C. called 911. In his call to 911, J.C. told the “dispatcher” that defendant “pulled a pistol out and said he’ll kill us or something or air us out.” When asked, J.C. described the gun as a “black and gray semiautomatic pistol.” Police officers quickly found defendant on a nearby street doing yard work and arrested him. In a search of the truck defendant was driving,2 the officers found a BB gun, methamphetamine, and a capped hypodermic needle. The People subsequently charged defendant with making…