Hiram Marrero

Deadly force

Officers came to an apartment complex serving residents with mental health issues to investigate a possible stabbing. Marrero, hostile and behaving unpredictably, appeared on a rear porch flourishing a couple of knives and confronting five to seven officers. Marrero surrendered one weapon but appeared, according to the police account, to be concealing another in his socks. The victim was 12 to 15 feet away when he was shot at 8 to 12 times. Four bullets struck him.