SAN JOSE — When the 17-year-old accused of the Black Friday shooting at Westfield Valley Fair mall encountered trouble in the past, court records allege, he could count on two people to have his back: his older brother and his brother’s girlfriend.

Both are now charged with being an accessory to the mall shooting that wounded three people — including a 28-year-old man wearing rival gang colors and two teenage shoppers — the day after Thanksgiving, for allegedly harboring the minor until he was arrested two days later. The two of them, plus a 33-year-old man, pleaded not guilty in court Thursday.

But the brother, Christian Duran, 20, and his girlfriend, Allana Nevaeh Murillo, 21, were already facing charges stemming from a schoolyard melee two years ago. That’s when, according to a 2023 c

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