A former Long Beach Unified School District safety officer been ordered to stand trial in the shooting death of 18-year-old Mona Rodriguez.
A Long Beach school safety officer who fatally shot an unarmed 18-year-old woman last month has been arrested and charged with murder.In the aftermath of the shooting, Rodriguez's friends and family pointed out that she was unarmed at the time of the incident, which prompted calls for Gonzalez to be charged with murder.The family of an 18-year-old woman who was shot by a Long Beach Unified School District safety officer and was left brain dead are calling for that officer's arrest.
Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Lowenthal on Wednesday rejected defense attorney Michael Schwartz's request to reduce the charge to manslaughter or to lower Gonzalez's $2 million bail, citing "the senselessness of this act." Gonzalez has remained jailed since his arrest Oct. 27 by Long Beach police detectives in Orange. He is due back in a Long Beach courtroom Feb. 3 for arraignment.
Following a nearly daylong hearing, the judge said it was"simply a tragic and heartbreaking case" primarily for the family and friends of Rodriguez, but also to the community of the nearby Millikan High School and the family and friends of the defendant, whom he said"didn't set out to kill someone on that day."
The judge said there was"no evidence at any point, though, that he actually was afraid of the car" and"didn't dive away from the car" as it moved, despite the defendant's statement to a Long Beach police detective soon afterward that he had feared that the vehicle was going to strike him after he ordered the vehicle's occupants to stop near Spring Street and Palo Verde Avenue.City News Service contributed to this report.
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