"Around 1:30 a.m. on a Saturday last month, two masked men approached a black Cadillac Escalade idling outside a Northridge apartment building. One held a shotgun, the other a handgun. A surveillance system captured the sounds of what happened next: A gang challenge, confusion, a demand for property. Then six shots and sounds of the Escalade speeding off. In the passenger seat was Maria De La Rosa, 22, with a gunshot wound to the chest."
"Arrested the day after the homicide, Francisco "G Boy" Gaytan told police he'd known De La Rosa since they were teenagers, Det. Siranush Simonyan wrote in the affidavit. Gaytan said his friend, Benny "Player" Gomez, made plans to meet De La Rosa on Bryant Street for a "drug buy," but the plan was to rob the musician, the affidavit said."
At about 1:30 a.m., two masked men approached a black Cadillac Escalade idling outside a Northridge apartment building. One carried a shotgun and the other a handgun. Surveillance audio captured a gang challenge, confusion, a demand for property, six shots and the vehicle speeding off. Maria De La Rosa, 22, who performed as DELAROSA, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and died. Police allege she was set up by friends and that suspects are members of the Bryant Street gang. Three people are now charged in her murder and investigators found phone messages linking suspects to the encounter.
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