In re J.T. CA2/6

Facts The murder and subsequent events were recorded by video surveillance cameras. At 3:59 p.m., Derald Loadholt parked his Mercedes on Western Avenue in the City of Los Angeles. A BMW had been following the Mercedes. The BMW stopped next to the driver’s side of the parked Mercedes. The BMW’s front passenger was “wearing a red top” or a “red hoodie.” The front passenger window of the BMW was partially open. Video footage showed “a hand extending out the [front passenger] window” of the BMW and “glass [in the Mercedes] shattering and breaking.” The BMW drove away. Five bullets had struck the driver’s side of the Mercedes. Loadholt died from a gunshot wound to the head. Three 9- millimeter casings were found at the crime scene. The BMW drove to 6411 8th Avenue and arrived there at 4:04 p.m., five minutes after the shooting. The distance between the crime scene and this address is about two miles. An officer who had “driven from the crime scene to that address” estimated that it would take approximately six minutes to make the drive in “normal . . . daytime traffic.” When the BMW arrived at the location, Alon Hunt got out of the rear passenger seat and walked to a security gate. The…