These facts are not in dispute:

In a span of four years and nine months, gang member William Arnold Armendariz III shot to death five people in three separate attacks, including the slayings of three people at a Banning cemetery in August 2020 as they held a memorial birthday party for a relative.

Five years before that, just after midnight on Nov. 7, 2015, Armendariz had gunned down 51-year-old Charles Neazer on 5th Street in Banning. Armendariz would later tell a jailhouse informant working for law enforcement that he believed Neazar was a rival gang member, which turned out not to be true.

And in July of 2018, Armendariz was one of the people who fired upon a car on Navajo Drive in Banning, fatally injuring 21-year-old passenger Bradley Cunningham. Almost two years went by without

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