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OS ANGELES — Oscar
Macias gripped his cellphone and quickly hammered out a text message to his childhood friend Tommy Cantu.
Hey I think something s going down with me im on valley in el Serrano in two if I dont text u back something happend
It was 7:38 p.m. on July 20, 2014. A Sunday.
Twenty miles away in Whittier, California, Tommy’s
phone buzzed as he sat down to dinner with his wife and two children. He
glanced at the message on his screen, then scanned it again to make sure he
read it right.
He called Oscar. No one answered.
At 7:40 p.m., another message came from Oscar: