Westmont

Lanai Dees was driving her white Mercedes Benz in an alley off Century Boulevard in the Westmont neighborhood at 12:40 a.m. on Nov. 17 when someone in a passing dark-colored SUV opened fire, Lt.

At Westmont University in Santa Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Amanda Sparkman studied differences between blue bellies living near campus and those in more rural areas.

This is about as far away as you can get from the unincorporated Westmont section where Drakeo and Ralfy grew up, a place with a homicide rate so high that it acquired the nickname “Death Alley” shortly before the brothers blew up in the middle years of the last decade.

His father, Joey, was a star player at Santa Paula, became head coach at Ventura College and is now an assistant at Westmont College.

Oldest brother Andrew plays at Westmont.