A 44-year-old Inglewood man allegedly killed and robbed two men he met through a dating website before savagely beating a third, prosecutors said Monday.<\/p>\n
Rockim Prowell was charged with two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and multiple counts of carjacking and burglary in a string of attacks from 2021 to 2025, according to a criminal complaint made public Monday. In each case, Los Angeles County prosecutors said, Prowell met his victims through online dating.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagine the terror and horror these victims felt after being duped into believing they were meeting for one reason, only to face inexplicable violence,\u201d Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said in a statement. \u201cThese were predatory acts that showed a total disregard of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
In July 2021, Prowell met up with Miguel Angel King, 51, after they connected on the dating app, according to a news release issued Monday by the district attorney\u2019s office. Prosecutors allege that Prowell shot King and stole his car, which was found a week later. Forensic evidence collected from the vehicle linked Prowell to the killing, according to the district attorney\u2019s office. King\u2019s remains were found in the Angeles National Forest the next month. <\/p>\n
At the time of King\u2019s death, Prowell was awaiting trial on multiple counts of burglary and theft. He was arrested in May 2021, court records show, and allegedly killed King two months before the district attorney\u2019s office offered him a plea deal that placed him on probation. <\/p>\n
A spokesman for the district attorney\u2019s office declined to comment on the prior plea agreement or identify the dating app used in each attack. <\/p>\n
The L.A. County public defender\u2019s office, which last represented Prowell in 2021, did not immediately reply to a request for comment. <\/p>\n
Prowell was scheduled to be arraigned Monday, but his hearing was delayed to Oct. 16th, according to a district attorney\u2019s office spokesperson.<\/p>\n
In August 2023, prosecutors said Prowell met up with Robert Gutierrez, 53, after again using a dating website to connect.<\/p>\n
Gutierrez\u2019s family reported him missing a week later and his body was never found, prosecutors said. But when Prowell was arrested last week, prosecutors said they found Gutierrez\u2019s vehicle in his garage.<\/p>\n
This year, prosecutors say Prowell also lured a 40-year-old man to meet him through the same dating website, after which he \u201cbound the victim, stole his wallet and beat him with a baseball bat,\u201d according to the news release. The man escaped, but Prowell chased after him in a car, running him over and breaking his leg. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors could pursue the death penalty against Prowell, but a decision on whether to do so must be approved by a committee within the district attorney\u2019s office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 44-year-old Inglewood man allegedly killed and robbed two men he met through a dating website before savagely…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[35786,1582,276,19351,38440,21132,2961,224,5337,2089,9548,3215,21063,1812,6617,116082,116081,6189,7307,2452],"class_list":{"0":"post-211939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-burglary","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-count","12":"tag-district-attorney","13":"tag-king","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-man","18":"tag-monday","19":"tag-news-release","20":"tag-next-month","21":"tag-office","22":"tag-prosecutor","23":"tag-robert-gutierrez","24":"tag-rockim-prowell","25":"tag-vehicle","26":"tag-victim","27":"tag-week"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115172514423503041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}