G-Mobb-affiliated chance meeting between members of two warring Sacramento street gangs sparked a shooting that killed an innocent out-of-town girl at a teen party last summer

chance meeting between members of two warring Sacramento street gangs sparked a shooting that killed an innocent out-of-town girl at a teen party last summer on Auburn Boulevard, witnesses told a hearing Tuesday.

The violence erupted when a group of unidentified teenagers recognized and then jumped a gang rival who had cursed them at a juvenile detention facility, sheriff's detectives testified at a preliminary hearing for two young men facing murder charges.
It ended when a friend of the beatdown victim ran to a car, retrieved a handgun, came back to the fight and shot wildly into a crowd – killing 14-year-old Lanajah Nachelle Dupree, according to the detectives' testimony.

"Cowards," said Norman Dupree, 33, the father of Lanajah Dupree, after the Superior Court hearing. "If it was a gang fight they should have taken it up with each other and left all the innocent people out of the situation."

At the conclusion of the examination, Judge Maryanne G. Gilliard ordered the alleged gunman, Jaivonne Flenory-Davis, 20, and his purported accomplice, Nikko Jermaine Alexander, 18, to stand trial for murder in the Dupree girl's death.

Gilliard scheduled the trial for May 24.

Sheriff's gang Detective Nick Goncalves attributed the fatal blowup to a three-year battle between assorted subsets of the Oak Park Bloods and the south area G-Mobb that has bloodied the city's streets.

Goncalves testified the gangs are responsible for about 27 to 30 attacks on each other and five homicides. The most recent killing was the shooting of Lanajah Dupree, the Sparks, Nev., girl gunned down at the July 11 party at a motel clubhouse in the 2900 block of Auburn Boulevard.
"It's fair to say there's definitely a war between the two," Goncalves testified, under questioning from prosecutor Leland Washington.
Detectives testified it was Alexander who got jumped outside the clubhouse where scores of teens had gathered to party. They tracked down Alexander through the car he drove that was captured on videotape zipping away from the shooting. When they questioned him, he identified Flenory-Davis as the gunman, Detective Paul Belli testified.

Flenory-Davis' lawyer, Laurance Smith, argued the shooting was not gang-related. He criticized the District Attorney's Office's use of the state's gang laws on the books for more than 20 years. The laws allow prosecutors to introduce police expert testimony to establish a broader, psychological context to gang crimes.

"I find it disturbing, in this case as in so many others, that the gang allegation is used to create extra prejudice that has nothing to do with the activities of these 'evil' gang members," Smith said.

"Let this be what it is," he said, "which is a dispute between teenage boys that got out of hand because guns are freely available."

Smith called the expert testimony of Goncalves "junk evidence."

The statement drew a rebuke from Judge Gilliard. She characterized the defense attorney's words as a personal attack on the gang detective.

The prosecutor countered that the Auburn Boulevard shooting reeked with gang infusion. The slur that the G-Mobb-affiliated Alexander put on his gang rivals at the Warren E. Thornton Youth Center, their bracing of him at the party, Flenory-Davis' immediate access to a handgun – it all added up to a gang crime, Washington argued.

"This is the gang mentality," Washington said. "That's the gang mindset. If the individuals weren't immersed in the gang culture, this crime never would have happened."

Daniel Bailey has been told to pay up £194,370 by a court. If he fails to hand over the money within six months, he will face a three-year jail term.

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Riaz Mohammed, used a string of front companies to ship the highly addictive narcotic from Turkey.

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Angus McDonald has pointed the finger at three of the people he says were involved with him in a plot to import millions of pounds worth of drugs

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