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The handgun believed to be used in the shooting is in Figueroa’s vehicle and police plan to search for the weapon once they secure a search warrant Saturday, Butts added.

Police license plate readers showed the Ford was in South Los Angeles the morning that Morris was killed, Byers wrote in a search warrant affidavit reviewed by The Times.

County district attorney’s office investigators outside her apartment with a search warrant as part of Operation Dirty Pond.

But the motion was denied because of a search warrant university police had obtained, alleging the phones were used to commit a felony and they were part of an ongoing investigation.

Dean and her attorney, Ian Wallach, said they have yet to access the affidavit behind the search warrant, which would lay out the probable cause police used to justify their actions.