People v. Rios CA2/2

FACTS

Prosecution Evidence

I. Shooting on Pine Avenue (Counts 1-4)

On January 17, 2010, Elizabeth Fuentes was preparing a barbecue in the courtyard of her Pine Avenue apartment home in Long Beach. Attending the barbecue were her five-year-old grandson, Andrew Navarrete; her son-in-law, Catarino Navarrete; her daughter, Sonia Jarez; and her son, Luis Salcido. Salcido was a member of the 18th Street gang and used the moniker “Solito.” At approximately 5:00 p.m., Fuentes was standing outside, and Andrew was right next to her. Salcido and Navarrete stood at the door to the residence. Salcido had just arrived at the barbecue by bicycle from his sister’s house, which was just a few blocks away. Fuentes saw a Hispanic man approach and pull out a gun from a distance of 20 to 25 feet from her. The man stood outside the courtyard and shot toward the screen door of Fuentes’s residence, where Navarrete and Salcido were standing. Fuentes grabbed her grandson and put him in back of her. Andrew was not hit, but Fuentes was shot in the stomach. Bullets broke the glass windows to Fuentes’s residence, and some bullets struck the inside of the residence, where Jarez and other members of the…