From [HERE] No charges will be filed against five former police officers involved in the 2016 shooting deaths of a man and a woman who were found unconscious in their car, Los Angeles County prosecutors confirmed this week. 

Marquintan Sandlin and Kisha Michael, who were Black, were killed Feb. 21, 2016, by Inglewood police officers who were responding to a call about a vehicle that was stopped in traffic lanes. 

Sandlin, who was in the driver's seat, was shot five times after police were able to wake the couple up. He died at the hospital. Michael was shot 13 times and was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said in a 36-page report that an investigation found "that there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officers’ use of deadly force was unlawful." 

The shootings happened around 4 a.m. A man called 911 to report that two people were either asleep or unconscious in the front seats of their car. The caller also reported that the woman, later identified as Michael, had a gun on her lap, the March 31 report states. 

Responding officers placed cars in front of and behind the couple's vehicle to prevent them from leaving. A Los Angeles police helicopter assisted. 

Gascón said officers tried for over 40 minutes to wake up Sandlin and Michael. They used spotlights, light bars, sirens and an air horn and nudged the car’s back bumper with a police vehicle, but the couple did not awaken, he said. 

A sergeant then made an announcement over a speaker while instructing Michael and Sandlin not to move and to roll the windows down. After a few minutes, Sandlin began to stir. 

The report says Sandlin rolled the window down and then drove the car forward, hitting one of the patrol vehicles. He then reversed, striking another police vehicle. Sandlin is alleged to have driven the car forward again and stopped. 

Multiple officers said they saw Sandlin lean toward his right and reach toward Michael's lap, where there was a handgun, according to the report. 

An officer fired two shotgun rounds, hitting Sandlin. Michael then woke up and opened the passenger's door, the report says. Officers said they fired after they saw her reach toward her lap.