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Oracio Villagomez appeals from his convictions for attempting to hijack a motor vehicle, aggravated assault, and criminal trespass. As we find no merit in his claim that insufficient evidence supports his convictions, we affirm. On appeal, we view the evidence “in the light most favorable to the verdict and the appellant no longer enjoys the presumption of innocence; moreover, on appeal this court determines evidence sufficiency and does not weigh the evidence or determine witness credibility.” Citations and punctuation omitted. Williams v. State , 217 Ga. App. 636, 638 3 458 SE2d 671 1995. Viewed in this light, the record shows that Villagomez attempted to take Gail Robinson’s Corvette after she filled it with gasoline at a gas station. When Robinson got back into her car, Villagomez approached her and prevented her from closing the door. He then waved a silver gun over her and demanded that she get out of the car. When he grabbed her shirt to pull her out of the car, it ripped, causing him to fall backward. Robinson then jumped out of her car and began screaming and crying hysterically that he was trying rob her and take her car. When people began rushing toward Robinson, Villagomez got into the passenger side of a black Mercury Mountaineer that was parked behind Robinson’s Corvette. A second man, later identified as Alexander Diaz, was in the driver’s seat. Diaz sped off with Villagomez and turned right onto a dead-end street beside the gas station.

Three men, who drank coffee together at the gas station almost every morning Charles Freeman, Joe Williams, and Scott Austin, testified that when they learned that someone had tried to take Robinson’s car, they went outside, where they learned that the perpetrators had gone down the dead-end street in the black Mercury Mountaineer. Williams and Austin retrieved their guns from their car, and the three men went to the entrance of the dead-end street to try either to stop the perpetrators or get their license tag number. When the black Mercury Mountaineer containing the two men returned down the street, bystanders started yelling for it to stop. The driver of the Mountaineer accelerated and aimed for the three men, causing them to fear they would be run over. According to Freeman, the driver then put a gun on top of the steering wheel; Austin testified that the passenger pointed a silver gun at them. Austin then fired his weapon four times at the Mountaineer. Diaz ducked, causing the Mountaineer to swerve away from the men.

 
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