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... Read this story
