"When his date pulled out handcuffs, the man thought it was for consensual sex. He submitted to having his wrists cuffed and ankles bound together. Then the other man pulled out a baseball bat. The Feb. 22 incident, recounted in a detective's affidavit, began on Grindr, a hookup app for gay men. It ended with the handcuffed man badly injured - but alive."
"With his cooperation, detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department said, they identified his alleged assailant as Rockim Prowell, 34, and suspected it wasn't the first time he'd lured a victim using Grindr. Prowell was charged in September with killing two men whose deaths had gone unsolved for years, authorities said. "We needed to connect the dots," said Det. Ray Lugo of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department."
"The trail of evidence that led detectives to Prowell began in 2021, authorities say, when a married father of five left home at 1 a.m. for a date with a man he'd met online. Inglewood police officers found Miguel Angel King's white Toyota CHR parked on Queen Street the afternoon of July 22, 2021. The vehicle's hatchback area, Lugo said, was covered in blood. King, 51, had been reported missing by his wife and children days earlier, Lugo said."
An encounter arranged on Grindr on Feb. 22 left a man handcuffed, ankles bound and battered with a baseball bat but alive. Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department identified Rockim Prowell, 34, as an alleged assailant with cooperating victim information. Authorities linked Prowell to earlier incidents, including the disappearance and bloody vehicle of Miguel Angel King on July 22, 2021. Prowell was charged in September with two murders and faces counts of murder, attempted murder, carjacking, robbery, burglary and assault. Family members of King described him as a hardworking father and caregiver. Legal counsel did not respond to requests.
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