People v. Nwuzi CA1/4

BACKGROUND

On the morning of March 27, 2019, between 10:45 a.m. and 10:49 a.m., two people called 911 to report an incident involving a man and a woman fighting. One caller was in her apartment when she heard a commotion and went out to her balcony. She

1 saw a man in a dark sweatshirt and sweatpants get out of a gold sedan, walk around to the passenger side, return to the driver’s seat, and drive away. She estimated the man was approximately six feet tall. She testified at trial that she heard a woman screaming, but she conceded that when she called 911, she said the passenger was screaming at the top of “his or her” lungs. She could not tell the race or ethnicity of the driver or the passenger. The man drove away recklessly toward the nearby Walgreens. The second 911 caller, Samantha Watt, saw a man driving erratically in the parking lot of Walgreens. A woman was hanging out of the partially-opened car door, screaming as the driver pulled her long, brown hair. Watt did not get a good look at the driver or describe him, the passenger, or the car during her 911 call. At approximately 10:45 a.m. that day, Officer Chris Bruce was on patrol in the Windemere area of San Ramon when…