Jurors deadlocked, with a 7-5 vote, with the majority favoring guilt on a second-degree murder charge.
A sign with a photo of Mona Rodriguez is posted in front of the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles, when District Attorney George Gascón announced the filing of a murder charge against Eddie Gonzalez.
Rodriguez and Sabrina Ramos, a then-15-year-old Millikan student, had fought and ended up in the southbound lanes of Palo Verde Avenue when Gonzalez pulled up in a marked SUV and separated them. Gonzalez sat Ramos down on the curb and went after Rodriguez, her boyfriend Rafeul Chowdhury and his younger brother as they got inside Chowdhury’s sedan.
Defense attorney Michael Schwartz said Gonzalez’s life was in danger when the car peeled out and several witnesses testified that they thought he would be seriously hurt or killed by the car. Schwartz argued Gonzalez had reason to detain the three in the car because Ramos told him they had taken her cellphone and that Rodriguez had threatened to kill her family.Prosecution wraps up case against Long Beach school security officer charged with murderPerson shot, critically wounded by school safety officer near Millikan High in Long Beach
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