People v. Dixon CA2/3

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

1. The shooting As Dixon doesn’t challenge the evidence against him, we summarize it only briefly. On the morning of November 5, 2018, Luis Gonzalez was working at a body shop and tire store he owned on Slauson Avenue. Gonzalez’s wife Victoria Rodriguez worked with him there. The business had a storage building for parts and supplies. That morning, Gonzalez and Rodriguez had received a shipment of oil and were unloading it from a car. Rodriguez heard her husband call out. She looked toward the business and saw a person later identified as Dixon in front of one wall. Dixon began approaching Gonzalez. Gonzalez asked Dixon what he was doing. Gonzalez and Dixon “exchanged words” in angry tones for two or three minutes. Dixon began walking toward a daycare center next door. Gonzalez followed him and they started arguing again. Gonzalez turned back toward his business. Dixon lifted his sweater and pulled out a gun. Rodriguez screamed at her husband to “run or do something because he’s going to shoot you.” Dixon shot Gonzalez three to five times. Gonzalez “collaps[ed] little by little” and Rodriguez ran toward the business to call her brother-in-law.…