The Long Beach Unified School District will pay $13 million to the family of an 18-year-old woman who was shot by a school safety officer as she sat in a car.
The Long Beach Unified School District will pay $13 million to the family of an 18-year-old woman who wasThe money settles a wrongful death lawsuit filed over the Sept. 27, 2021 killing of Manuela"Mona" Rodriguez.
"I personally don't really care about the settlement. It's not bringing back my sister,″ Rodriguez's brother, Omar, said at a news conference."I don't want anybody else to go through this pain.″ Rodriguez, the mother of a 5-month-old son, was shot in the back of the head in a parking lot near Millikan High School in Long Beach. She was sitting in the passenger seat of a car that was driving away after Rodriguez had gotten into a fight with a 15-year-old girl, police have said.Video posted online appeared to show the safety officer firing at least two shots as the car moved off next to him. At least one bullet pierced a window of the car.
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