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While driving south down the east alley paralleling Townsend Street, Officer Ayala noticed four people, two males and two females, hanging out inside a garage on the 800 block of South Townsend Street, on the west side of the alley . 0fficer Ayala believed them to be possible gang members . As he drove by the garage, one of the males waved at Jfficer Ayala . Officer Ayala then met Officer Esquivel, who had been driving south on Townsend Street in another patrol car, at the end of the alley. The two officers decided to return to the garage and talk to the four subjects. Officer Ayala drove back up the alley and parked his patrol car on the east side of the alley, slightly north of the garage. Officer Esquivel parked his patrol car directly behind Officer Ayala's car. The officers exited their vehicles and began to approach the garage, Officer Ayala walking southwest toward the garage's front door, and Officer Esquivel walking directly west toward the garage wall. Officer Ayala saw a female exit the garage and immediately recognized her as Gonzalez , the wanted person whose picture he had seen earlier in the day. Gonzalez was holding an apparent gray , semiautomatic pistol in her right hand and pointing it up toward the sky. She was standing five to 10 feet away from Officer Ayala, and there was no cover between them. Officer Ayala knew that Gonzalez was wanted for a homicide, and he stated that he feared Gonzalez was going to shoot him. He tried to move to a position of cover along the east wall of the garage and yelled, "Gun ." He withdrew his pistol from his holster with his right hand and began shooting at the garage wall, believing that shooting at the wall would provide cover for him while he ran across the alley toward Officer Esquivel 's patrol car. As he ran toward the patrol car, Officer Ayala saw Gonzalez run east from the garage toward the alley. He heard gunshots but did not know whether the gunshots were coming from Gonzalez's firearm. When he arrived at Officer Esquivel's car, he saw Gonzalez fall face down on the ground in the alley. Officer Ayala could no longer see the gray pistol, but he saw Gonzalez reach her left hand toward the front of her body, which was on the ground. He believed she was retrieving the pistol and yelled, "She's reaching for a gun." Officer Ayala fired two rounds at Gonzalez. During the entire incident, Officer Ayala fired a total of eight rounds. Meanwhile, as he was walking along the garage wall, Officer Esquivel saw Officer Ayala run across the alley toward the police cars and heard him yell, "Gun, gun, gun, gun." Officer Esquivel saw Officer Ayala fire rounds toward the front of the garage . Officer Esquivel believed that Officer Ayala was encountering a life-threatening situation due to the high- pitched tone of his scream. He then saw Gonzalez run across the alley to within five feet of Officer Ayala. Officer Esquivel believed that Gonzalez would kill Officer Ayala if he did not prevent it. Officer Esquivel withdrew the handgun from his holster and fired 12 rounds at Gonzalez. Gonzalez fell to the ground. Officer Esquivel retreated to the rear of his patrol car, where he saw Officer Ayala standing next to him . After the officers fired their handguns, the male subject, who had previously waved at Officer Ayala, peaked out from the garage, looked at the officers, and went back into the garage. Officers Ayala and Esquivel believed other subjects from the garage were going to shoot at them, so they retreated southbound and took cover next to garages southeast of the other subjects' garage. The officers notified dispatch that they had been involved in a shooting incident and requested paramedics. Minutes later, additional SAPD officers arrived to assist. Officer Esquivel handcuffed Gonzalez and saw a grey replica handgun under her body. SAPD officers searched the area but were unable to locate the other persons who had been in the garage . At approximately 8:1 4 a.m., the Orange County Fire Department arrived on the scene. The paramedic who treated Gonzalez saw her lying prone in the middle of the alley in a pool of blood with her hands cuffed. She was not breathing, had no pulse, and was unresponsive. The paramedic directed SAPD to remove Gonzalez 's handcuffs. He removed f"''1nzalez's shirt and observed a gunshot exit wound on her back. When he turned Gonzalez onto her back, a bullet fell ,m her body to the ground. The paramedic also noted gunshot wounds on Gonzalez 's left chest, right chest, right breast, right bicep , and right inner elbow . He also found a syringe in Gonzalez's bra that appeared to be filled with 3