People v. Ruedas CA4/3

FACTS

While driving along a Santa Ana street shortly after midnight, Jose Madrigal saw two men standing on the sidewalk wearing hooded sweatshirts with the hoods pulled over their faces. He watched as the two men ran up behind a person walking along the sidewalk, later identified as Daniel Jimenez Lopez. The man wearing a white or light-colored sweatshirt placed Lopez in a chokehold. Madrigal then heard a

2 loud noise that sounded as if something hit his car. He subsequently discovered his vehicle had been struck by a bullet. Madrigal circled the block. He saw a beige- or khaki-colored older model Chevrolet Suburban double-parked in a shopping center with its lights off. People were sitting in the driver’s and front passenger’s seats and the vehicle’s doors were open. The two men in hooded sweatshirts were fleeing toward the Suburban. Madrigal tried to get the Suburban’s license plate number, but the vehicle sped away. Meanwhile, Lopez called 911 and told the dispatcher he had been shot. Madrigal returned to Lopez’s location, reaching it just as a police officer arrived. They found Lopez lying face down, bleeding from bullet wounds in his lower back, holding a cell phone in one…