Venegas

Facts On September 27, 2011, about 10:30 a.m., Sylvia Lozano heard approximately three gunshots. Patricia Torres, who lived two houses away from Lozano on Indigo Street in Compton, heard five or six gunshots. Torres looked out her front window and saw a bald male who appeared to be “Latino” in front of Lozano’s gate. He ran away, toward Tamarind. Lozano discovered bullet holes in a wall of her house and called 911. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy John Orozco and his partner Deputy Robles were in the vicinity, heard gunshots, and saw two vehicles travelling on Indigo at a high rate of speed. One vehicle was gold, the other green. Both ran the stop sign at the intersection, narrowly missing a collision with the deputies’ car. Deputy Orozco saw that the driver of the gold car was appellant and the driver of the green car was co-defendant Estrada. Neither car had any passengers. The deputies followed Estrada in the green car, which accelerated, ran a stop sign and turned onto Tamarind. There, the car stopped and Estrada threw an object out of the car. Luis Madera and Erika Contreras observed the object being thrown. Madera alerted Sheriff’s Deputy Alfonso Rodriguez to the object.…