LOS ANGELES
A 34-year-old Inglewood man has been charged with murdering two men and trying to kill another after meeting the victims on an online dating app, prosecutors announced Monday.
Rockim Prowell faces two counts of murder with a special-circumstance allegation of multiple murders, one count of attempted murder, two counts of carjacking, two counts of burglary, and assault with a deadly weapon.
He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
Prosecutors say Prowell fatally shot Miguel Angel King, 51, in July 2021, then stole his car. King’s remains were later found in the Angeles National Forest. In August 2023, Robert Gutierrez, 53, disappeared after meeting Prowell; Gutierrez’s car was recovered in Prowell’s garage, though his body has not been found.
Most recently, in February 2025, Prowell allegedly bound a 40-year-old man, beat him with a baseball bat, and ran him over with a vehicle, breaking his leg. The victim survived.
Prowell was already on probation for prior Beverly Hills and Los Angeles burglaries.
If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole or the death penalty.
The case is being prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney John Lewin of the Cold Case Unit and remains under investigation by LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division and the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department.