CHULA VISTA
After finishing up his day job, Mario Rojas was heading in to work a night shift at a Church’s Chicken restaurant in Otay Mesa in 2019 it was just his third or fourth day there when an ominous feeling hit.
“I felt something was gonna happen,” he said in court Thursday.
By the end of the night, Rojas was in the hospital with two gunshot wounds one to his stomach and one to his arm. Two other coworkers had been shot one of them was dead after a gunman opened fire on employees, reportedly after a dispute over a counterfeit bill.
and the shooting.
While what prompted Russell to open fire remains unclear, his attorney, Richard Pinckard, asked one witness, San Diego Police Department Sgt.
Andrew Tafoya, whether the video footage shows Bils running toward an occupied car as he fled.
Tafoya testified that he thought Bils was running next to the vehicle, rather than toward it.
Though Bils wasn t carrying any weapons, Pinckard noted he had only managed to slip the cuffs off of one of his wrists. He asked Tafoya whether Bils may have been holding onto the dangling cuff in his hand as he ran from
the scene, but Tafoya answered that he couldn t come to a conclusion one way or another.