Uceda

I. BACKGROUND

Uceda moved to the United States from El Salvador in 2013 and attended Mt. Diablo High School (Mt. Diablo) in 2014 and 2015. In the fall of 2017, Uceda was 20 years old and was not attending high school. He was living with his cousin’s 16-year-old friend, H.C., and H.C.’s family. H.C. had also attended Mt. Diablo but had transferred to another school. Janson was a student at Olympic High School, which is four blocks away from Mt. Diablo and in the same school district. Janson had also attended Mt. Diablo, from about 2014 to 2016. A. Conflict Among Students at Mt. Diablo K.G., known as “Panda,” had also attended Mt. Diablo during the prior school year. Before he arrived as a transfer student, some Mt. Diablo students were members of the Norteño gang, which is associated with the color red, “but not a lot” were members of the Sureño gang, which is associated with blue. There were no fights between the two groups. When K.G. arrived, he kept company with three other Mt. Diablo students—M.U., Y.P., and J.A.—as well as Uceda, who would pick the group up from campus. The group began “wearing El Salvadorian-like soccer jerseys and colors, blue colors often.” “[T]he way they…