United States v. Donnell Crews

PILLARD, Circuit Judge:

On September 21, 2011, three men approached Hugh Whitaker, an employee of a cash-in-transit service, as he exited a CVS in Washington, D.C. One of the men drew a handgun and demanded the cash Whitaker had just picked up from the CVS. Whitaker drew his own handgun and they exchanged gunfire. Whitaker retreated into the CVS unharmed. The three other men, one of whom had been shot, fled the scene. The police apprehended Donnell Crews and his half-brother, Anthony James, a couple of blocks away. After a witness identified Crews and James as two of the men who confronted…