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  • He shot an 18-year-old in the back of the head. A jury couldn't decide if it was murder

    Throughout the one-week trial of Eddie F. Gonzalez, prosecutors painted the former Long Beach school officer as a wannabe cop who wildly overreacted to a minor fight between girls and turned it into a lethal situation. Gonzalez's attorneys — defending him for shooting 18-year-old Manuela "Mona" Rodriguez in the back of the head as she fled the scene of the incident — called the 2021 killing a "tragedy, but not a crime." But the jurors deciding Gonzalez's fate deadlocked Tuesday, seemingly split...

  • Katie Simpson: Jury in murder trial told accused killed 21-year-old woman due to 'jealousy'

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