Security officers in California, Michigan and Texas have all been charged with fatal incidents including two shooting deaths that occurred earlier this year.

Victorville police arrested a 32-year-old security guard who was on duty at the Green Tree Inn hotel on April 1, 2022, at 2:12 a.m.

Deputies were dispatched to the Green Tree Inn after a reporter reported hearing gunshots and seeing an adult male on the ground.

When deputies arrived, they found Alexander Jackson-Baldwin near the hotel entrance with a gunshot wound. At approximately 2:20 a.m., medical personnel arrived and pronounced Jackson-Baldwin dead.

Detectives conducting the investigation established the identity of the suspect, Clarence Jones, the security guard, of Apple Valley, and arrested him at his place of business at 14173 Green Tree Blvd on Monday, July 18, 2022.

Officials said he was taken into custody without incident and is being held on $1 million bond.

Police believe the two men got into a confrontation when the security officer shot him.

A Houston security officer was charged in the shooting death that occurred earlier this year at an apartment complex where he was working. Police said that the guard told the man to leave the property and that the two men were involved in a physical altercation when the security officer fired his weapon.

In Michigan, four former mall security guards have been charged in the 2014 death of a man at Northland Mall and were due in court on today.

Lucius Hamilton, John Seiberline, Gaven King and Aaron Maree were charged with involuntary manslaughter after the reopening of a case that involved the death of 25-year-old McKenzie Cochran at the mall in 2014.

All four are expected to appear in court on Monday morning for a preliminary examination, a hearing where a judge determines if there’s enough evidence to advance to a trial.

Cochran was pinned to the floor by security guards at the shopping mall on Jan. 28, 2014, according to authorities. Witnesses said Cochran was hit with pepper spray and struggled with security guards.

His death was later ruled accidental position, compression, and asphyxia, according to the Oakland County Medical Examiner’s office.

Witnesses said Cochran could be heard saying, “I’m not resisting — I can’t breathe.”

At the time, an Oakland County prosecutor said the security guards were poorly trained but had no intent to harm Cochran.

Jessica Cooper said she had consulted experts, including the U.S. Justice Department, and declined to file charges.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel reopened the case in 2020. The mall closed in 2015.