People v. Ramos CA2/5

Facts In the early evening of December 20, 2009, seven members of the Criminals For Life (“CFL”) gang were standing in front of an apartment building at 8524 Beverlywood Street in West Los Angeles. According to McEntire, the group consisted of herself, Rodrigo Cortez, Salazar, Ernesto Garcia, “Nancy,” Jonathan Flores and Luis David Rosales. Cortez lived in the building. Several members of the group noticed a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt writing on a wall about half a block away. Cortez, Garcia

2 and Nancy started walking toward the person to investigate.1 As they approached the person, Cortez heard gunshots and returned to his apartment building. The shots were fired at the group remaining in front of Cortez’s building, which consisted of Salazar, McEntire, Rosales and Flores. Salazar was hit in the chest and died. McEntire was hit in the leg and survived, as did Rosales, who was hit in the foot. Flores was not hit. McEntire heard four gunshots, while Cortez’s mother Marta Romero heard five gunshots. McEntire was afraid of retaliation and initially claimed to have not seen anything, but she later identified appellant as the shooter. She knew appellant because they had…