People v. Landers CA4/1

STATEMENT OF FACTS

Clara Bibby lived in Riverside with her sons Mark and Randy and a daughter.

Landers was her grandson and lived one street over with his girlfriend. Mark lived in

Clara's garage in the backyard area of the property.

Mark was friends with Moses Duron. Because Duron had nowhere else to live,

Mark let Duron stay with him in the garage. Mark instructed Duron not to let Landers,

who frequently came to visit the family, use drugs in the garage. At some point in the

days before August 12, 2011, Landers came into Mark's garage wanting to use heroin.

Duron stopped Landers and explained that Mark did not want him using drugs in the

garage.

During this same time period, Mark suffered an abscessed tooth. Because of the

infection, Mark's cheek became swollen. Seeing the swollen cheek, Landers became

suspicious that Duron had hit Mark. He also suspected that Duron was forcing Mark

to sell drugs. Landers asked his uncle whether his suspicions were true. Mark told

Landers that Duron was not doing anything of the sort and that he was merely

suffering a tooth infection.

Landers did not accept this and continued to maintain that Duron was…