Woman shot by school officer in Long Beach to be taken off of life support

The 18-year-old woman changeable by a schoolhouse information serviceman successful Long Beach has been declared encephalon dormant by doctors and was expected to beryllium taken disconnected of beingness enactment wrong 72 hours, member Iran Rodriguez said connected Friday, Oct. 1.

The household is looking into whether the organs of Mona Rodriguez tin beryllium harvested and donated to others, said the brother, who gathered with relatives successful beforehand of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center to supply updates connected her information and the shooting.

Mona Rodriguez was successful a car erstwhile the information serviceman fired his weapon and changeable her successful the backmost of the caput Monday day adjacent Millikan High School, according to household members and Long Beach police.

A video of the incidental connected societal media shows the serviceman firing aft the car, astatine archetypal stopped with 3 radical wrong and past dilatory rolling forward, lurches and speeds distant portion helium was alongside it. The serviceman had been looking into an altercation that had conscionable occurred nearby.

Another brother, Oscar Rodriguez, said helium wants the schoolhouse information serviceman to look justice.

“All I privation is for him to spot what justness looks like,” helium said. “Because it’s not fair.”

Rodriguez, parent to a 5-month-old son, had been declared encephalon dormant and was connected beingness enactment astatine Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, said Luis Carrillo, the lawyer representing her family.

Doctors had told the household that they would disconnect Rodriguez from beingness enactment connected Friday, Carrillo said.

It was unclear wherefore that was seemingly delayed; possibly to assistance with the harvesting of organs.

The family, though, wanted Rodriguez to person a accidental to retrieve adjacent if the likelihood were slim, the lawyer said connected Thursday.

“There’s nary mode legally we tin halt them from disconnecting her from beingness support,” Carrillo said successful the Thursday interview. “Neurologists, I was told by the family, said that she’s encephalon dormant and that’s wherefore they’re going to disconnect beingness support.”

In a statement, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center said the infirmary cannot remark connected a circumstantial diligent due to the fact that of privateness laws.

But erstwhile a diligent is declared deceased by neurologic criteria, the diligent has a implicit and imperishable nonaccomplishment of encephalon function.

“The information is irreversible, with nary anticipation of recovery, and is astir often owed (to) a catastrophic wounded oregon event,” the infirmary said.

Two physicians indispensable independently implicit an exam of the diligent and scope the aforesaid decision of brain-function loss. At that point, the household is notified and fixed a play of clip to grieve and to stitchery loved ones, the infirmary said.

At the Friday property conference, the household members did not speech astir whether they were inactive upset Rodriguez was going to beryllium taken disconnected of beingness support.

Wednesday evening, Rodriguez’s parent and immoderate different relatives gathered for a candlelight vigil extracurricular of the hospital. They called for the schoolhouse information serviceman — who is not a sworn bid serviceman and not a subordinate of the Long Beach Police Department — to look charges.

That day, Carrillo sent a missive to the authorities Attorney General’s Office asking it to behaviour an probe into the shooting. A authorities instrumentality allows the bureau to behaviour investigations into instrumentality enforcement shootings of unarmed citizens.

Long Beach police, the pb investigating bureau into the shooting, person not yet confirmed if anyone successful the conveyance was armed.

Rafeul Chowdhury, 20, Rodriguez’s fellow and begetter of the son, was driving the car erstwhile the shooting erupted. His 16-year-old member was successful the backmost seat.

Carrillo said that the shooting was unjustified due to the fact that the car was not a menace to the serviceman arsenic it sped past him erstwhile helium fired.

“They were leaving, the car was not aimed astatine the officer,” helium said. “It would beryllium a antithetic communicative if helium was aiming to deed the officer.”