Brandon Marshall

Deadly force

While leaving his workplace Marshall, with a history of mental illness and some notoriety as a Silicon Valley whistleblower, ingested medication at a furious pace and began to act erratically. Two deputies approached him from behind. His reaction was to twirl and brandish an object that police described as a "5-1/2 inch metal spike" and others describe as a short, rounded aluminum key fob. Fearing for her life, one of the deputies fatally shot Marshall in the stomach. His family has filed a wrongful-death suit.