Cops Search Landfill for Gun Used in Student Slaying

Agoura Hills - Police officers and community volunteers again will search the Calabasas Landfill in Agoura Hills today for the gun used in the slaying of a popular El Camino Real High School student and soccer star amid signs that he was killed for having raised the ire of a jealous boyfriend.

The search for the weapon used to kill 17-year-old Francisco "Pancho" Rodriguez was expected to begin around 10 a.m. at the landfill at 5300 Lost Hills Road, said Los Angeles police Officer Karen Rayner. A search party spent much of the day at the landfill Wednesday, suspending their operation shortly before 4 p.m.

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 Daily News that Ibarra met Rodriguez at a party last summer, when Schuman was in jail after pleading no contest in a forgery case. Ibarra later found Rodriguez on Facebook, and the two became friends.

Schuman and Ibarra had a volatile relationship marked by mutual accusations of cheating, the newspaper reported.

He found out about the Ibarra-Rodriguez relationship when he got out of jail in August.

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

Rodriguez was shot in front of his Winnetka home in the 6900 block of Cozycroft Avenue around 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 he went outside and was shot.

Schumann was charged with murder, and Ibarra was being held on a probation violation. The suspects remain jailed.