People v. Sagastizado CA2/5

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts

Around 8 p.m. on December 28, 2022, a man in a hoodie approached five men gathered in a carport off an alley in North Hollywood. The man pulled out a gun and, through a locked gate, fired six or seven shots; bullets struck three of the men, and one of them died from his wounds. The shooter ran back down the alley to a waiting van. Surveillance video from businesses and residential Ring cameras enabled law enforcement to string together and thereby reconstruct the van’s movement to and from the carport alley. The van had departed from a duplex approximately 2.5 miles

2 away, parked in an alleyway where the shooter got out of the passenger’s side, and returned to the duplex after the shooter ran back to the van after the shooting. Defendant featured prominently in the video as the van’s driver. The video depicted him hiding a firearm in the front wheel well of a vehicle parked outside the duplex, checking its location several times, and ultimately removing the gun and putting it in the pocket of his hoodie just minutes before departing for the carport alley in the van. The video further showed that, during the outbound trip to the…