People v. Jones CA2/3

BACKGROUND

I. The murder of Tyrone Golden

Jones and James Williams were jointly tried for the murder of Tyrone Golden. The prosecution’s theory was that Jones was the shooter, Williams was the getaway driver, and the murder was in retaliation for the murder of a fellow gang member. The fellow gang member was Clayton Ross, known as Red Bang. On March 12, 2015, Ross was shot and killed at a store on Hoover and Century. Members of the Underground Crips were arrested in connection with Ross’s murder. Just weeks after Ross was killed, Golden was killed on the morning of March 31, 2015. The morning that Golden was murdered, gunshots woke Miguel Rosales, who was at his home in the general area of 10114 South Budlong Avenue in Los Angeles. Looking out his window, Rosales saw Golden on the ground. Rosales also saw a man wearing jeans and a grey hoodie running to a white van with paper license plates. The man left in

2 the van, although Rosales could not tell whether he entered through the front or rear passenger door.1 Paramedics arrived at 8:40 a.m. and determined that Golden, who had been shot in the back of the head, was dead. Four 9-millimeter casings fired from one gun were…