A Tale of Two Shootings

august 7, 2003  11:00 am
A Tale of Two Shootings
After a night of drinking and rock 'n' roll, an off-duty Orange County cop engages in random gun play. No charges are filed. But a Santa Ana resident accused of randomly firing a gun in his yard faces a life sentence. OC Weekly's Nick Schou looks at a case where justice isn’t so much blind as stupid. "Let’s see: Shooter No. 1 is a gang-unit cop. Shooter No. 2 is a crew-cut Latino who lives in a gang-infested neighborhood. You do the math," Shou writes.