Police Brutality / Individual record
Marquintan Sandlin
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Marquintan Sandlin in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2016-02-21 in Inglewood, CA. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-371
- Incident date
- February 21, 2016
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Inglewood, CA
- Agency
- Inglewood Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 32
What happened
Marquintan Sandlin, 32, was shot and killed by Inglewood police while seated in a parked car with Kisha Michael during the early hours of February 21, 2016. The police response began with a 911 report concerning the couple's Chevrolet Malibu. Officers surrounded the vehicle and fired numerous rounds, killing both people inside. Neither victim fired a shot, and no body-worn or patrol-car camera recorded the fatal gunfire. The Los Angeles County district attorney's March 2022 investigation documented flaws and missing evidence in the original Inglewood inquiry but concluded prosecutors lacked proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers acted unlawfully. Michael's and Sandlin's individual deaths are recorded separately, while the shared circumstances and later prosecutorial findings are consistent across both.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1293
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- undetermined
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 1113
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset