"One of the women in Sandoval's vehicle said she assumed it was fireworks at first, but then "blacked out" when she saw sparks hitting the ground around them. When she came to, she was bleeding, and a friend was yelling at Ashley to "wake up." "Ashley was passed out, I thought she fainted. So I knew automatically that we needed help," the woman testified in 2022."
"But Sandoval, 19, had been hit in the head. Her family would later make the agonizing decision to take her off life support. "The last day that I could say goodbye to my daughter, that I could hug her and kiss her, I promised that justice would be served on her behalf," her mother, Suli Barron, said in court in 2024."
On Dec. 4, 2020, a fight at an unlicensed Oakland nightclub led Ashley Sandoval and others to separate vehicles and a pursuit to the 25000 block of Eldridge Avenue in Hayward. Pursuers threw bottles and expected a fistfight, but ambushers armed themselves and opened fire when Sandoval's car arrived, striking everyone inside. Evidence indicates two shooters acted at Sonia Gonzalez's behest with directions from Taiz Vega-Mendoza. Sandoval, 19, suffered a fatal head wound and was later taken off life support. More than five years later, three women and two men originally charged with murder resolved their cases; victims and family called the outcomes unsatisfactory.
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