People v. Travis W.

Opinion

KAY, P. J.

What started as a drug buy ended as a carjacking. An adult held a gun on the owner and demanded the keys to the car while Travis W. and another person forced the owner to his knees. When the owner produced the keys, it was Travis who took them. Travis himself never held the gun. The primary issue presented by this timely appeal is whether the juvenile court was correct in concluding that what Travis did constituted “[cjarjacking . . . while armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon” within the meaning of Welfare and Institutions Code section 707, subdivision (b)(25),1 which was…