South Pasadena, California — South Pasadena police released body camera footage of an officer-involved shooting that killed actress Vanessa Marquez in August 2018. Two police officers acted in “lawful self-defense” in the fatal shooting of former ER actress Vanessa Marquez, who was shot and killed in her home in South Pasadena, California, in 2018, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has ruled.
On August 30, 2018, SPPD officers responded to an apartment located on Fremont Avenue, in the City of South Pasadena, to conduct a welfare check on Vanessa Marquez. Marquez lived in an upstairs apartment in the complex. During the contact, Marquez brandished a black BB handgun and a fatal officer involved shooting occurred.
