A young musician was gunned down in Northridge. Did childhood friends set her up?

Around 1:30 a.m. connected a Saturday past month, 2 masked men approached a achromatic Cadillac Escalade idling extracurricular a Northridge flat building.

One held a shotgun, the different a handgun. A surveillance strategy captured the sounds of what happened next: A pack challenge, confusion, a request for property.

Then six shots and sounds of the Escalade speeding off.

In the rider spot was Maria De La Rosa, 22, with a gunshot coiled to the chest. A instrumentalist who performed arsenic DELAROSA, she had a increasing pursuing astatine the clip of her decease connected Nov. 22.

Authorities said De La Rosa was killed during a robbery but revealed small other astir the case. The Times precocious reviewed a hunt warrant affidavit written by the Los Angeles Police Department detective who investigated the homicide. According to the document, De La Rosa was acceptable up by her friends — 2 of 3 radical present charged with her murder.

Arrested the time aft the homicide, Francisco “G Boy” Gaytan told constabulary he’d known De La Rosa since they were teenagers, Det. Siranush Simonyan wrote successful the affidavit.

Gaytan said his friend, Benny “Player” Gomez, made plans to conscionable De La Rosa connected Bryant Street for a “drug buy,” but the program was to rob the musician, the affidavit said.

Gaytan, Gomez and the 2 alleged gunmen are from Bryant Street, a pack successful Northridge, according to the affidavit.

Gaytan claimed helium took nary portion successful the robbery, but aft helium consented to a hunt of his phone, Simonyan said she recovered substance messages sent to 1 of the alleged gunmen, Eduardo “Active” Lopez.

“Go get skis mask,” Gaytan allegedly told Lopez 5 hours earlier De La Rosa was killed.

Gaytan’s lawyer didn’t instrumentality a petition for comment.

Gomez was interviewed the time aft Gaytan spoke to police, Simonyan wrote. He excessively said helium was “childhood friends” with De La Rosa.

Gomez told detectives helium met up with De La Rosa aft going to a club. He was talking with her extracurricular Gaytan’s flat gathering erstwhile 2 masked men walked up and opened fire. He ducked and ran, helium said, and lone learned that De La Rosa had been killed erstwhile her parent called him.

Gomez insisted helium had thing to bash with the shooting. His lawyer didn’t respond to a petition for comment.

Gomez’s relationship was belied by surveillance video, Simonyan wrote. Cameras fixed to a adjacent flat gathering showed Gomez speaking with Lopez and the 2nd suspected gunman minutes earlier De La Rosa arrived.

According to the affidavit, Gomez shook their hands and made a Bryant Street manus motion earlier gesturing for them to locomotion down an alley, Simonyan wrote.

De La Rosa called Gomez arsenic helium walked to greet her, the detective wrote. Meanwhile, the 2 alleged gunmen approached the Escalade from the alley, pulling a shotgun and handgun from their pants.

“This is Bryant gang, n—,” 1 said, according to the affidavit.

After De La Rosa was changeable and the Escalade sped away, a dependable — Gomez’s, detectives fishy — tin beryllium heard successful surveillance video asking, “Why’d you sprout them, fool?”

After stashing their guns successful a Chevrolet Astro van, Lopez and his accomplice got into Gaytan’s BMW 328i, Simonyan wrote. As helium stepped into the sedan, the detective wrote, Lopez dropped a cardinal portion of grounds — a tribunal papers with his sanction and lawsuit number.

Gaytan appeared to reason with the alleged shooters wrong the car, the detective wrote. When helium opened his door, surveillance cameras captured him saying, “Get retired of here.”

“You fools are dumb,” Gaytan said. According to the affidavit, helium could helium heard saying what sounded like, “What you fools did — I told you what to marque it look like.”

The alleged shooters got retired of Gaytan’s car and sped disconnected successful a Honda Civic, presumably to Mexico, Simonyan wrote. About 13 hours aft De La Rosa died, Gomez allegedly wrote successful a substance to Gaytan: “We bully they near to tj.”

Gaytan and Gomez person yet to participate pleas to charges of execution and attempted robbery. Prosecutors besides announced charges against Lopez, but it’s unclear if he’s successful custody. Authorities person not said if the 2nd alleged gunman is charged with De La Rosa’s murder, and his whereabouts are unclear.