The family of an 18-year-old California woman who was fatally shot after a school safety officer opened fire on a car she was riding in has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the school district involved.
Manuela “Mona” Rodriguez’s family was awarded $13 million from the Long Beach Unified School District in connection with her death in September 2021, attorneys for the family announced Tuesday.
“This is step one of accountability,” Rodriguez’s brother, Omar Rodriguez, said at a news conference aired by NBC Los Angeles Tuesday. “I’m really hoping that we get true justice. You know, my sister was robbed of that. We were robbed of our sister.”
