People v. Dor CA2/7

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2 at the Armenian Center in Pasadena. When they left the party, they walked across the street to where Kradjian had parked. Dor and another man were standing near the rear of Kradjian’s car. Kradjian walked Morales to the passenger side of the car and helped her in. He closed her door and walked to the rear of the car. Morales looked back and saw Kradjian arguing with Dor and the other man. Kradjian pushed the men away and started walking toward the driver’s side door of his car. Dor shot Kradjian three times, then he and the other man ran away. Kradjian died from his wounds. A few months later Dor was a passenger in a car stopped by the Torrance police for a traffic violation. A gun was recovered from the driver, which later was determined to be the weapon that killed Kradjian. In the course of an investigation into unrelated robberies, Michael Baskerville told the police that on the night of the shooting Dor said to Baskerville that he had robbed an Armenian man and shot him. Two of Dor’s friends, Evans and Mosely, were with him that night, but they had remained in the car and were not involved in the robbery and shooting. Dor later told Baskerville he had been…