In re Alec R. CA5

FACTS

On March 13, 2012, the Tulare County District Attorney filed a juvenile wardship petition charging appellant with shooting at an inhabited dwelling (count 1/Pen. Code, § 246), conspiracy to shoot at an inhabited dwelling (count 2), and resisting arrest (count 3). The evidence at appellant’s jurisdictional hearing established that at around midnight on March 9, 2012, someone fired at least two rounds from a shotgun at Chanou See’s house on North Bridge Street in Visalia, damaging the front door and breaking a bedroom window. Ernie Ramirez testified that he arrived home from work just prior to the shooting. As he drove up to his house, which was located in a cul-de-sac named East Parker Court, Ramirez saw two people just north of See’s residence standing at the northeast corner of East Parker Court and North Bridge Street. The subjects were dressed in black hoods and black pants and Ramirez could not see their faces. Five seconds after entering his house, Ramirez heard two shots. He looked out a window and saw the two subjects standing about 10 feet away from See’s house and then running east down East Parker Court, past a barricade, and into an open area where some abandoned…