Breaking News: Rodney King Found Dead at 47
Breaking News: Rodney King Found Dead at 47
47-year-old Rodney King was found dead at the bottom of a pool in Rialito, CA. His fiance found him at the bottom of the pool. Law enforcement responded to a call at 5:25 p.m. PT. He was removed from the pool CPR was attempted with no avail. He was pronounced dead at 6:11 A.M.
Rodney King rose to fame after being the center of a brutal police beating by LAPD in L.A. in 1991. The police involved were charged, but found not guilty. It cause racial tensions to mount at the time and set off a path of unrest that L.A. had never seen.
TMZ is reporting:
Rodney King's fiancée is telling friends Rodney had been drinking all day Saturday … and had smoked weed in the hours leading up to his death … sources close to King tell TMZ.
According to our sources, King's fiancée, Cynthia Kelley, is telling friends King was at the house all day drinking, and he smoked marijuana at some point, before she went to went to bed at 2:00 AM.
We're told Kelley says she next saw King at around 5:00 AM when she was awoken by him screaming in the backyard. Our sources say Kelley found King naked, banging on the glass, and she called out to him, "What's wrong, Rodney?"
Kelley is telling friends she then went to grab her phone when she heard a big splash. She then went to the backyard and discovered him in the bottom of the pool and called police.
Paramedics attempted to revive King, but were unsuccessful.
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