Former LBUSD safety officer walks free after judge sentences him to time served in fatal shooting

A judge sentenced a former Long Beach Unified School District school safety officer to three years in state prison for the shooting death of an 18-year-old woman in 2021, but the defendant walked out of the courthouse on credits for time served in county jail and ankle monitoring Tuesday, Oct. 8.
Eddie Francisco Gonzalez, 54, of Orange, was flanked by family, friends and supporters as he walked out of the courtroom, some of whom gasped when Judge Richard M. Goul imposed the three-year sentence f