P. v. Louis CA4/2
A radiology business with an office in Palm Springs used an automated system to make phone calls and send text messages to its patients. In attempting to enter one patient’s phone number into the system, someone transposed two digits and entered the phone number of defendant Jerry Wayne Louis instead. Defendant therefore began receiving repeated “robocalls.”
On August 16, 2016, defendant called the Palm Springs office. Employee Brittany R. answered the phone. He told her, “If you keep calling me, . . . I’m going to shoot you and the Palm Springs office up.”
Brittany R. — who was crying — reported the call to her supervisor, in Indio. The supervisor called defendant back, “to try to calm the situation.” Defendant said, “Goddamn it, didn’t you hear what I said? I just told the other person . . . now I’m going to come down there and shoot the place up.” The supervisor “believe[d] th[e] threat.” She “felt frantic.” She called a higher-up, w
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