Charles “Pookie” Declouet, 62, was a barbecue artist. He liked to share his food, so on Memorial Day last year, he took plates to friends. While sitting on the friends’ couch watching TV, he was shot in the head from a car that drove by.
Brennon Flores was 21, had a little daughter and dreamed of a career in music. On July 6, 2021, he was shot in the chest as he was standing in the doorway of a trailer trying to protect his girlfriend during a fight that had broken out in the neighborhood.
On August 20, two separate juries in two different state district courts in Orange County decided to give life sentences to the men who murdered Declouet and Flores…