Murder, Suicide on Ocean Cliff
The fatal shooting of a husband and wife whose bodies were found on a San Pedro cliff appears to be a murder-suicide, L.A. police said Wednesday.
Eduardo Rodriguez, 37, apparently shot his estranged wife, 32-year-old Monica Rodriguez of Long Beach, before turning the gun on himself, said Los Angeles Police Department Det. Jim Perkins. The weapon has not been found.
The couple, who had been separated for about a year, had a 15-year-old daughter.
The man “had made prior comments to friends and family that his daughter was going to be brought up alone and that it would be his wife’s fault,” Perkins said. “The husband had notified a friend to pick up his car at the location.”
Monica Rodriguez died of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, said David Campbell, a spokesman for the L.A. County coroner’s office. Eduardo Rodriguez was killed by a gunshot wound to the head, Campbell said.
The bodies were discovered Tuesday afternoon in a fenced area known as Sunken City, near South Pacific Avenue and Shepard Street in San Pedro.
The couple’s daughter is now living with her grandmother.
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