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Teen: Mentally ill or a calculating criminal?

SANTA ANA – In a Fountain Valley officer-involved shooting in which the suspect received more than 30 shotgun pellet wounds, jurors must weigh whether the bipolar 17-year-old imagined being a CIA spy or knew he was in a shootout with cops. An exchange of gunfire at an apartment complex in which David Vinh Dinh fired four shots – one as a warning and the other three into the ground – from an AK47 occurred not because he wanted to kill anyone, but because he wanted to get away. Via the Orange County Register. Click title to read more.