4 Girls May Be Charged in Murder : Crime: Police say the teen-agers, all from upscale neighborhoods, were passengers in car during drive-by slaying of youth who scoffed at gang members’ challenge.

The four teen-age girls had a lot in common, police say. They lived in tony neighborhoods, went to the same parties and hung out with two known gang members for thrills.

Now they share something else: Police are asking prosecutors to charge all four with murder in the shooting death of a 16-year-old Taft High School student at the Fallbrook Mall in the San Fernando Valley last weekend.

The girls were passengers in a 1992 Ford Escort that drove past Ramtin Shaolian and four friends Friday night as they walked from the mall’s General Cinemas Theater to a nearby Sav-On Drugs. The driver, 19-year-old Elliott Singletary, asked the youths what gang they were with, said Los Angeles Police Lt. George Rock.

Rock said that drew a tart reply from the neatly dressed Ramtin: “Does it look like we’re gangbangers?” As Ramtin and his friends headed back to the theater, the Escort circled the mall parking lot and then drove past the youths a second time, headlights off.

Rock said that Tommy Williams, 19, leaned out the driver’s side window, brandishing a .22-caliber pistol, and cried: “You’re not gangbangers, huh? Well, you’re gangbangers now!”

He fired eight to 10 times, fatally wounding Ramtin and injuring two of his friends, according to police.

One of Ramtin’s friends recognized a 16-year-old girl from Woodland Hills. Police arrested her on suspicion of murder at her home on Saturday at 8 a.m., Detective Bob Howe said. Two of the other girls--a 17-year-old from Studio City and another 16-year-old Woodland Hills resident--turned themselves in to police Saturday, and police arrested the last, a 15-year-old from Woodland Hills, at her home, Howe said.

The girls identified the two gang members as “Chocolate” and “Ace Capone”--the monikers for Singletary and Williams, respectively, Howe said. Williams was arrested about 5 p.m. Saturday, along with a 17-year-old Van Nuys boy who police said allegedly sheltered both Williams and Singletary after the shooting and hid the murder weapon. Singletary turned himself in Sunday morning.

All five juveniles have been released into their parents’ custody because they have no records and have been cooperative, Rock said, adding that police are still investigating the girls’ role.