GhLinks Media
Ex-cop’ Elias Huizar reportedly killed his ex-wife Amber Marie Rodriguez, and girlfriend and abducted a one-year-old, according to an Amber Alert from the Washington State Patrol.
Amber Marie Rodriguez worked as a ‘paraeducator’ at a school in West Richland. They share two children, aged nine and five, according to legal records.
The couple finalized their divorce in 2020.
After facing rape allegations, Amber Marie Rodriguez sought to amend their custody arrangement and obtained a protection order, citing concerns about his potential danger to her and their children.
Rodriguez alleged that Huizar had been harassing her following their divorce and expressed her belief that he was mentally and emotionally unstable.
He also owns guns, she said.
It was unclear what the result of the case was, a hearing had been set for May 14.
The shooting is believed to be an isolated incident but residents have been asked to call non-emergency lines if they see anything suspicious around the school.
Huizar served with the police department between 2014 and 2022 and was assigned to be a school resource officer at Washington Middle School in Yakima. It was not clear where he was employed after he’d left the department.
On February 3, he was arrested after his 17-year-old girlfriend reported him for the attack on her 16-year-old friend who was staying overnight at their home in West Richland.
Huizar and his underage girlfriend have a baby who was nine months old at the time of his February court appearance, according to the Tri-City Herald.
The Tri-City Herald reported that Huizar secured a protection order against his now girlfriend in 2019 after she told friends they were in a relationship and the friends reported it to the school principal.
The girl denied it and claimed her account had been hacked when social media posts about the alleged relationship were revealed.
‘A criminal investigation was completed by the Attorney General’s Office and the case was unfounded,’ Huizar wrote in his petition for the protection order.
‘(She) was then expelled from school.’
The petition claimed the girl had contacted Huizar’s then wife, downloaded photos from the couple’s Facebook pages, and taken ‘numerous’ covert photos of Huizar.
Yakima County Judge Gayle Harthcock approved the protection order which prevented the girl from coming within 500 feet of him or his family for a year.
The girl claims in the court documents that Huizar contacted her in 2022 when she was 15 and they began a relationship.
Their child was born in April last year, and the pair began living together in the West Richland home when she was 17.
The age of consent law in Washington is 16 years old, though police have been investigating whether he slept with her before that.
