When the car sped past him in a Long Beach parking lot, former school safety officer Eddie Gonzalez was either a dedicated public servant in fear he would be run over by a fleeing suspect — or a killer who made a wild and reckless decision to shoot into the back of a car full of youths who disobeyed him. Those were the lines prosecutors and a defense attorney drew Thursday afternoon as opening arguments began in the guard's murder trial in the September 2021 killing of 18-year-old Manuela "Mona"... Read this story
