Opinion ID: 844263
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Heading: The Murder of Billy Gallegos as Motive for the Murder of Skyles and Price

Text: Gabriel Urena testified about a gang killing that occurred two weeks before the shooting of Skyles and Price that may have instigated the latter shooting. Urena was a passenger in a car driven by Billy Gallegos when Gallegos was shot and killed on March 31, 1996. According to Urena, Gallegos was a member of the Ballista clique of the Puente gang. Gallegos was driving in the City of La Puente when another car pulled up alongside him. Two African-American men were in the car, and they threw a gang sign of the letter N, which stands for Neighborhood Crips. They then fired three shots at Gallegos, who crashed his car into a brick wall and later died of gunshot wounds to the head.