leija is definitely the aggressor.ficer who was actually doing a block check at the time uses his oc spray to get them to separate and orders them to get on the ground. >> leija, an admitted gang member, has proven to be more violent on the streets. originally charged with first degree murder, he eventually pled guilty to second degree murder in hopes of receiving a lighter sentence. he is eligible for 75 years in prison. >> i shot a man six times in the face. no matter how much of a gangster i am, what i think i am, i struggle with that say when i first got here. like i struggled with that for real. if i could go back, change some things, i still would have shot him. but i wouldn't have hit him in the face and i wouldn't have killed him. >> according to prosecutors, leija and his co-defendant met a 43-year-old man at the home of a mutual female friend in order to sell him five pounds of marijuana. instead, leija drew a gun and attempted to rob the man. >> he reached for it, boom, grabbed it, went off two times, one, t