People v. Washington CA4/2

STATEMENT OF FACTS

A. The First Robbery

At around 9:30 p.m. on November 29, 2013, defendant and another man entered

Goody’s Food Store in Riverside wearing masks and gloves. One was wearing a

“skeleton mask” and the other was wearing a black mask.2 Their faces were mostly

covered. Two customers, Justin and James Foster,3 storeowner Kahlid Ramahi, and

employee Jose Cruz were in the store at the time.

The black-masked robber pointed a gun at Justin and told him to get on the floor.

Both Justin and James were scared and got on the floor. Justin gave the robber a money

clip and James gave him his wallet. Justin only saw one robber, but James saw two.

The skeleton-masked robber then pushed Ramahi to the cash register and told

Ramahi to give him all the money in it. Ramahi gave him approximately $300. He was

scared. Although Ramahi did not see the skeleton-masked robber holding a gun at the

time, when he later reviewed surveillance footage, he saw that the skeleton-masked

robber had held a gun to him. James saw one of the robbers point a gun at Ramahi, but

did not remember which one.

Although one witness identified the second mask as “red”, the other witnesses…