Personally, I thought he was carrying the gun around in a cloth because he was looking for somebody to sell it to. I don’t think he meant to kill her, since they have shown that the bullet hit the sidewalk and richoceted a few hundred feet to hit her, but he was a career petty criminal and was probably just doing what those people do. That is, nothing legal.
As foe the “sanctuary city” stuff, how in the world is it legal for a city or region to just decide they don’t agree with federal law and refuse to abide by it? And even announce it proudly? I honestly don’t understand why they are allowed to get away with this.
I do not claim to know a great deal re this travesty of justice. I do know that bullets when fired at a sidewalk do not normally act like tennis balls and bound high in the air to hit someone in the head. A bullet is a chunk of lead (usually) and deforms and actually deflects typically only a few degrees.
Perhaps the bullet did not hit the sidewalk, some reporting on a support for a pier of some sort.
Ballistics experts must have been introduced at some point, but nothing heard by the pubic?? about such a matter.