The Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education has unanimously voted to fire the safety officer who opened fire last month on a moving car filled with young people, killing a female passenger.
During a news conference, Supt. Jill Baker said that officials believed the officer had violated the district’s use-of-force policy.
Rodriguez, the mother of a 5-month-old boy named Isael, died Tuesday after more than a week on life support, her family’s lawyers said in a statement.Officers are not permitted to fire at a moving vehicle and may fire only when reasonably necessary and justified under the circumstances, such as for self-defense and the protection of others, according to the Long Beach Unified safety office’s policy. It also bars shooting at fleeing suspects.
Gonzalez was hired by the school district in January and has been on paid administrative leave since the shooting, according to spokesman Chris Eftychiou.
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