Trigger Warning: This story contains details about gun violence.  

A California school officer has been charged with murder after he fatally shot an 18-year-old woman that was trying to depart from an altercation on Sept. 27. 

Eddie Gonzalez, 51, is facing a $2 million bail and is in custody at Long Beach City Jail. His attorney, George Gascón, says he must be held responsible. “We must hold accountable the people we have placed in positions of trust to protect us,” Gascón said. “That is especially true for the armed personnel we traditionally have relied upon to guard our children on their way to and from and at school.” 

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Eighteen-year-old Manuela Rodriguez was making an effort to leave after being involved in a physical dispute with a 15-year-old girl. Gonzalez, who was driving near the altercation, saw Rodriguez’s involvement, reportedly approached her vehicle and fired his gun. 

Rodriguez was taken to the hospital and died from her injuries roughly a week later, according to Gascón’s office. Gonzalez was fired by the Long Beach Board of Education on Oct. 6 for violating their use-of-force policy. The policy instructs safety officers not to shoot at a fleeing person, moving vehicle or through a window, with the exclusion of any “circumstances [that] clearly warrant the use of a firearm as a final means of defense.” 

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