As I recall, he tried to carjack a Latino woman who called out for help. The neighbors orginally thought it was a woman being assaulted which is not exactly a guarantee of popularity in Latino neighborhoods. Once her screams got their attention, they made the connection. The police had to rescue him from the crowd.
I also seem to remember that he’d just gotten off a bus from an out of town trip.
Hmm. There’s about half a dozen versions of the arrest. The one involving a car which, now, sounds familiar, involved him trying to steal it while the owner was underneath working on it. He’d already been spotted by a liquor store owner when he stopped to buy cigarettes after getting off the bus. She’d alerted several folks who were following him when he attempted the car theft. Probably somewhere in the various versions there’s something about a yelling female because I do remember that from the original reporting.
He had just returned from Phoenix, where he was buying cocaine.