People v. Wanamaker CA3

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT (Sacramento) ----

THE PEOPLE, C071060

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. No. 10F04690)

v.

THOMAS ROBERT WANAMAKER,

Defendant and Appellant.

Appointed counsel for defendant Thomas Robert Wanamaker asked this court to review the record to determine whether there are any arguable issues on appeal. (People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 (Wende).) Finding no arguable error that would result in a disposition more favorable to defendant, we will affirm the judgment. I On July 18, 2010, law enforcement responded to a report of a shooting in Citrus Heights. Officers arrived to find a Chevy Lumina parked at a Shell gas station. The Chevy had three bullet holes in it and officers found broken glass and two shell casings in a nearby Chuck E. Cheese parking lot.

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Stephanie Elliott, the driver of the Chevy, told the officers there were five passengers in her car, including a three-year-old child and a man named Thomas Hilton. Elliott informed the officers that, earlier, she drove Hilton and the other passengers to a nearby liquor store so that Hilton could buy cigarettes. When Hilton got out of the Chevy to go inside the liquor store, he stopped at a white convertible automobile and asked Tiffany Gangstee for a dollar. Gangstee screamed at Hilton, which made Hilton’s girlfriend Nicole Godfrey angry and everyone inside the Chevy got out of the Chevy. Godfrey threatened Gangstee and another passenger from the Chevy, Kenneth Smith, told Gangstee to call her boyfriend. Using her cell phone, Gangstee called her boyfriend, defendant, and he came out of a grocery store located in the same strip mall as the liquor store. Defendant was calm, everyone talked, and everyone parted ways. Elliott then drove the Chevy toward the Chuck E. Cheese, as she did, she saw that Gangstee and defendant’s white convertible was following her. She pulled to the side of the road and let the convertible pass her. She waited a few seconds after seeing the car turn right, and then drove the same path as the white convertible before driving into the Chuck E. Cheese parking lot. After entering the Chuck E. Cheese parking lot, Godfrey saw the white convertible approach the Chevy on the driver’s side. Hilton opened the rear driver’s side door of the Chevy and began to “challenge” defendant and Gangstee. Hilton never got out of the Chevy, but he opened his door intending to fight defendant. Elliott also saw the white convertible on the driver’s side of her car. She then watched Gangstee lean her seat back and saw defendant open fire on the Chevy with a handgun. One bullet from defendant’s gun grazed Elliott, leaving a burn mark. Another bullet went through the open door and hit Godfrey in her left knee. Three bullets hit Hilton, one in his left buttock and two in his left quadricep.