Appellant Daquan Stevens appeals his conviction for malice murder, participation in criminal street gang activity, criminal attempt to commit armed robbery, two counts of aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.1 For reasons stated below, we affirm. 1. Viewed in a light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence reveals appellant was a member of a gang that referred to itself as the International Robbing Crew “IRC” and which was engaged in numerous criminal activities, including robbery, burglary, and murder. On May 22, 2007, the gang, including appellant, followed Randy Griffin to his townhouse with the intent to rob him. Appellant was in a car that followed Griffin as he left a club on his way home. There was a second car of gang members already laying in wait at Griffin’s townhouse complex. Appellant alerted the gang members in the second car that Griffin was approaching his home. The gang members in the second car engaged in a shootout with Griffin during which Griffin’s girlfriend Lacey Magee suffered a gunshot wound to her hand. Meanwhile, the car in which appellant was riding arrived just outside Griffin’s townhouse complex as the shootout was occurring. In a panic, Randy Griffin ran outside the complex and entered the car occupied by appellant and told the occupants he had just been robbed and his girlfriend shot. At that point, appellant and his cohorts elected not to kill Griffin for fear of being recorded by street surveillance cameras. When the second vehicle exited the townhouse complex, Griffin exited appellant’s car and started shooting at the second vehicle as it drove away. Appellant and the remaining gang members left the scene as well.
During the shootout, two IRC members were wounded and one of them, Carlos Drennon, sought treatment at the same hospital as the victim Magee. While at the hospital, Griffin identified Drennon to police and they arrested Drennon at the hospital and soon jailed him on charges related to the attempted robbery of Griffin. The next day, the gang, including appellant, met and decided to target Griffin to be murdered. That same day, they took steps to that end by arming themselves with guns and going to Griffin’s place of employment, but they did not find Griffin at that time. Less than a month later, on June 10, 2007, three gang members encountered Griffin at a club and two of them shot Griffin a total of five times. The fatal shot caused a bullet to enter Griffin’s back, pierce his right lung and damage his pulmonary artery before the bullet exited through his chest.2 Griffin died at the scene. After the shooting, appellant and other gang members alerted Drennon, who was still in jail, that Griffin had been killed.
