Police Search Landfill for Weapon in Teen's Slaying

Officers and community volunteers scoured the Calabasas Landfill in Agoura Hills without success Wednesday for the gun used in the recent slaying of a popular El Camino Real High School student and soccer star. The search was to resume Thursday, police said. Click here to see video and report from KCBS2.

The student, in Chatsworth's .

The search party went to the landfill at 5300 Lost Hills Rd. at about 10:15 a.m. to look for the weapon used to kill Rodriguez, Los Angeles police Officer Norma Eisenman said.

Authorities did not immediately say .

Officer Cleon Joseph said the search was called off for the day shortly before 4 p.m., but would resume Thursday morning.

in front of his Winnetka home in the 6900 block of Cozycroft Avenue at about 6 p.m., 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.

Jason Schumann, 24, and Elizabeth Ibarra, 19, were arrested Jan. 16 in connection with the crime. Schumann was charged with murder, and Ibarra was being held on an alleged probation violation. The suspects, who both have criminal records, remain jailed pending further court proceedings.

Police sources have told the Daily News and the Los Angeles Times that Rodriguez may have found himself in a love triangle involving a woman with a jealous male friend.

—City News Service