Opinion ID: 844262
Heading Depth: 6
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The El Cajon home invasion robbery

Text: Later that same night, defendant and Don Juan Thompson burst into Tashna Waits's apartment. Holding a gun, defendant ordered her guests Ronald Doss and Alton Brown to empty their pockets. Doss drew his own gun and the men exchanged gunfire. Defendant was hit. Thompson was keeping Waits, Kimberly Braeutigan, and their children in a bedroom. Hearing the shots, he emerged, grabbed defendant's gun, and fled, leaving defendant behind. A San Diego County firearms examiner testified that some of the cartridge casings recovered from Waits's apartment came from a pistol found in a nearby flowerbed. That same pistol produced the cartridge casings recovered near the apartment of DeMarco Atkins where defendant had threatened to get Jesse Russell.