In re D.L. CA2/6

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In September 2020, the prosecution filed a section 602 petition alleging that 16-year-old D.L. committed two counts of murder (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a)) and one count of attempted willful, deliberate, and premeditated murder. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 664, subd. (a).) According to the probation report, D.L. was a member of the Bay 13 gang. He was walking on a sidewalk when he was approached by a car occupied by Armando Avalos and Belen Alzaga, who were members of the Elm Street Watts gang. Avalos pulled the car up next to D.L. and asked, “Where you from?” D.L. pulled out a firearm and fired multiple shots into the car. One shot fatally struck Avalos in the head. About an hour later, in a separate incident, D.L. fatally shot Armando Calderon in the face outside Calderon’s home. The home was about one mile from the scene of the previous shooting. By the time of the transfer hearing, D.L. had spent four years in juvenile hall, from 2020 to 2024. At the hearing, the prosecution presented as evidence detention observation reports, which compiled information from various staff members regarding D.L.’s behavior in juvenile hall, a June 2019 pre-plea…