Landfill Search for Gun Used to Kill El Camino Real Student Ends With No Weapon Found

Police officers and community volunteers Thursday spent a second day searching the Calabasas Landfill in Agoura Hills for the gun used in the slaying of a popular El Camino Real High School student and soccer star, but came up empty-handed.   

The search for the weapon used to kill 17-year-old Francisco "Pancho"
Rodriguez resumed shortly before 10 a.m. at the landfill at 5300 Lost Hills Road
and ended shortly before 4 p.m.

Richard French of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations
Section said no further searches of the landfill were planned.   

Jason Schumann, 24, and Elizabeth Ibarra, 19, were arrested Jan. 16 in
connection with the slaying of Rodriguez. Both have criminal records.   

A police source told the Los Angeles Daily News that Ibarra met Rodriguez at a party last summer, when Schumann was in jail after pleading no contest in a forgery case. Ibarra later found Rodriguez on Facebook, and the two became friends, the source said.

Schumann and Ibarra had a volatile relationship marked by mutual accusations of cheating, the newspaper reported. Schumann found out about the Ibarra-Rodriguez relationship when he got out of jail in August, the report said.   

Perhaps out of spite, Ibarra told Schumann she was seeing Rodriguez, the
source told the Daily News, which reported that Rodriguez may have been the victim of jealous rage.

Rodriguez was gunned down in front of his Winnetka home in the 6900
block of Cozycroft Avenue at about 6 p.m. Jan. 11, soon after returning from a
soccer game in which he played. Police said a woman knocked on his door, and when he answered and went outside, he was shot.

Schumann has been charged with murder, and Ibarra was being held on an alleged probation violation.