A former Long Beach Unified School District school safety officer charged with second-degree murder in the death of an 18-year-old woman near Millikan High School was released from jail last week after posting bond, inmate records show.

Eddie F. Gonzalez, 52, of Orange was released July 28, the records show. He was being held on $2 million bail after a judge in January ordered him to stand trial in the shooting death of Manuela “Mona” Rodriguez.

Gonzalez had broken up a fight between Rodriguez and a 15-year-old girl, which had spilled out into traffic lanes along Palo Verde Road near Spring Street, just north of the Millikan campus, about 3 p.m. on Sept. 27.

Rodriguez, her boyfriend Rafeul Chowdhury and his brother had gotten into Chowdhury’s car in a nearby parking lot. As Gonzalez approached to the right, video by a bystander shows, Chowdhury pulled away.

Gonzalez was accused of firing two shots, with one going through the rear-right window and a headrest and fatally striking Rodriguez in the back of the head while she was in the front-passenger seat, according to evidence presented at the January preliminary hearing.

Rodriguez, a mother of a then-5-month-old son, died more than a week later after being taken off of life support, family members said.

Gonzalez told at least one detective he aimed at the driver thinking the driver was going to “strike him and run over him,” but Gonzalez was never hit by the car, Long Beach police Detective Donald Collier testified during the preliminary hearing.

At one point, the girl Rodriguez fought had told Gonzalez that her phone had been taken, Collier said. Chowdhury’s younger brother admitted to taking the phone, but placed it on the ground near a telephone pole as he ran to the car.

Gonzalez’s attorney, Michael Schwartz, has argued he had reason to believe the three in the car had just committed assault, robbery and criminal threats, giving him reason to detain them until police officers arrived.

Multiple witnesses told detectives they heard Gonzalez shout “Stop!” multiple times before the shots were fired.

However, prosecutor Saeed Teymouri argued that Gonzalez was seen on video taking a step back from the car and away from any danger of being hit. Teymouri argued Gonzalez intentionally fired, knowing it was dangerous.

Gonzalez, who was hired at LBUSD in January 2021, was fired a week after the shooting following officials’ determination he had violated the district’s use-of-force policy.

He had previously worked in short stints with the Los Alamitos and Sierra Madre police departments.

Chowdhury told police he, Rodriguez and his brother had been in the area to pick up Adidas shoes for his son when Rodriguez noticed the 15-year-old girl, who she had argued with online after the girl had fought with a friend of Rodriguez’s days earlier.

Chowdhury’s brother told detectives they had walked the Millikan campus looking for the girl and found her in the wrestling room during a practice. They then waited outside and followed her as she walked along Palo Verde Avenue.

Gonzalez told detectives he was doing one final lap around the school before ending his shift that day.

He was due back in court on Sept. 7.