A 26-year-old Pennsylvania man was sentenced this month to 25 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting a man in a 7-Eleven parking lot in Long Beach after trying to steal his cellphone, according to court records.
Darrell Brock was immediately handed the sentence on Oct. 16 after pleading no contest to second-degree murder in the June 27, 2023, shooting of 27-year-old Isaac Marshell IV, court record show.
The shooting occurred in the 1000 block of Long Beach Boulevard and detectives, in a search warrant, said video from the 7-Eleven captured the shooting.
According to the search warrant document, the video shows Marshell arrive, park his car and get out before Brock approached him and appeared to start a conversation. Marshell walked back to his car, Brock followed and Brock appeared to “forcefully remove a cellular phone the victim possessed and then proceeded to run away.”
Marshell chased Brock and the two fought, with Marshell getting his phone back and driving away in his car.
Five minutes later, Marshell returned to the 7-Eleven and Brock was still there, the search warrant says.
They argued and a third man, Carlos Alberto Jimenez Hernandez, approached with a skateboard and hit Marshell through the driver’s window with it as Brock also began to throw punches.
During the fight, Brock seemed to get “a firearm from his front waistband and then fired one single shot through the driver’s side rear-passenger window, shattering the glass, and striking the victim as he sat in the driver’s seat,” the document says.
Marshell got out and ran away but collapsed across the street, the document says. Despite medical help, he died at the scene.
Brock was arrested the same night and initially told detectives he grabbed the firearm from Marshell’s car, but then said he got it from his front waistband, the document says.
The man with the skateboard, Hernandez, now 35, pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon in November 2023 and was sentenced to two years of probation, but his probation was revoked and he was sentenced to two years in state prison in April, court records show.