just had to show an example, if this dude thinks anybodys running from anybody, it goes both ways:
At about 8:30 a.m. on October 10, 2003, Araceli C. was standing in front of an apartment building, 7501 South Central Avenue, which was on the west side of the street at the corner of 75th Street and Central Avenue in Los Angeles. She was waiting to cross the street eastbound. Near the corner were three young adult “cholos” to whom she had just sold tamales from her shopping cart. Suddenly, six shots rang out. She believed that the shots came from her left, and the youths on the corner with her quickly bicycled off. A bullet struck her right arm, completely shattering her elbow. The extent of her injury indicated that she had been shot with a high-powered firearm, such as an M16 or AR-15 assault rifle.
Approximately two blocks away, at 76th Street and Wadsworth Avenue, Carmelo Montes, age 68, was mowing his lawn. A.O., Montes’s son-in-law, was inside the family residence. A.O. heard shots, presumably those at 75th Street and Central Avenue, and went outside. He saw Montes standing on the corner of 76th Street and Wadsworth Avenue with his grandchildren. Montes’s son, M.M., was across the street. A.O. told his children to go inside the house and turned and took several steps away from Montes.
A blue Chevrolet Caprice was approaching northbound on Wadsworth Avenue. It turned left westbound onto 76th Street. Fuller was the driver. The passenger, Nichols, leaned out of the Caprice’s window and fired two shots with a rifle in the direction of Montes and A.O. The shots missed, but the passenger then fired one or three more shots, one of which hit Montes in the neck. When Nichols fired his rifle, the children were still on the sidewalk. M.M. told the police that the rifle was similar to an M16 military rifle. A.O. identified the rifle as an “AK” rifle with a 50-round “half banana” clip. A.O. said that when the Caprice made the turn and the passenger shot the rifle, the Caprice was driving “pretty” slowly and much slower than most cars travel at that corner.
After the shooting, A.O. followed the Caprice in his wife’s car. At the stop sign at 76th Street and Towne Avenue, Nichols got out of the Caprice and pointed the rifle at A.O. who was a half block away. A.O. quickly turned his car into an alley and returned home. A bystander, E.A., a former United States Marine Corps member, saw Nichols as he lowered the rifle, which he identified as an M16-2 assault rifle. When the Caprice drove off, E.A. followed the Caprice and telephoned 911. Using the information provided to them by E.A., Los Angeles police officers found Nichols and Fuller at a market at 62nd and Main Streets and arrested them. E.A. identified appellants as the Caprice’s occupants.
Near or on the market wall, the officers observed gold graffiti, which was still tacky and said “76+62 (six Deuce)=F-13 K.” In the graffiti, the “F-13” was crossed out. There was a large “ECC” below the “76” and “62,” as well as “BGC” and “MSB” below that. BGC and MSB were crossed out. The detective testified that “ECC” means East Coast Crips, “BGC” means Broadway Gangster Crips and “MSB” stands for Mad Swan Bloods. He said that F-13, BGC, and MSB were rivals to the East Coast gangs, and the crossing out indicated that these gangs were rival gangs to the gangs whose signs were not crossed out. “K” means kill.
A blue Caprice was parked nearby. Inside the Caprice’s trunk, a criminalist found a spray can containing gold metallic paint. A Philadelphia 76ers baseball cap was found in the Caprice’s backseat.
At the market, along with appellants, the officers detained Treveon “T-Bone” M., who had an “S” tattoo on one arm and a “D” tattoo on the other.
At the 7501 South Central Avenue apartment building, the officers observed “Florencia” graffiti in the stairwell.
The officers recovered 11 .223-caliber shell casings from the crime scenes. A firearms examiner testified that all but one of the casings were fired from the same high-powered rifle. One casing had such poor markings that the firearms examiner could not determine whether that bullet had been fired from the same rifle. Four of the expended casings fired from the high-powered rifle were found inside the Caprice, and seven were found on the street near 7501 South Central Avenue. The officers found 7 nine-millimeter expended casings grouped together at the front edge of the courtyard of the 7501 South Central Avenue apartment building, all of which had been fired from the same gun. Two more nine-millimeter expended casings, fired from a different gun, were recovered from the location where Montes was shot.
In addition, five bullet fragments were recovered at 7501 South Central Avenue. The fragments had been fired by two different handguns, most likely semiautomatics. Four of the fragments were consistent with having been discharged from a nine-millimeter firearm and were found lodged in a building on the east side of South Central Avenue; one of the fragments had been discharged from an M16 .223-caliber rifle, and it was lodged in the 7501 South Central apartment building. The bullet fragment retrieved from Montes’s body was consistent with a .223-caliber bullet.