Rodney Kind Died At 47

Rodney Kind Died At 47

Rodney King was found dead Sunday (June 17) morning Rialito, California.

King was an American man who was most famous for being the victim of an incident of police brutalityinvolving the Los Angeles Police Department on March 3, 1991. A bystander, George Holliday, witnessed the beating and videotaped much of the incident from a distance.

Rodney King’s family is suspicious over the drowning death of the man whose savage beating at the hands of the police triggered the deadly 1992 Los Angeles race riots.

‘We think it’s foul play. I don’t care what anyone says,’ King’s cousin, Latoya Anderson claimed yesterday.

Relatives and friends claim the chain of events leading to the discovery of 47-year-old King’s body at the bottom of his swimming pool on Sunday morning don’t add up.

They insist he was a strong swimmer who was turning his life around after a two-decade battle with alcohol.

King’s fiancée Cynthia Kelley told police she was woken up by the sound of King banging on the window of their California home just after 5am on Sunday and found his lifeless body at the bottom of the pool a few minutes later.

He had allegedly been drinking all day and smoking marijuana.

But celebrity website TMZ – which first reported the news of King’s death – claimed yesterday that two close friends of the drowning victim have told detectives they don’t believe King’s girlfriend is telling the truth.

They allegedly told a detective that her story had discrepancies when she described what happened in various versions to friends.

Police said they haven’t discovered any sign of foul play at King’s home in Rialto, California, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.

An autopsy is being carried out and toxicology tests could provide more clues to what caused the tragedy.

King’s fiancée was a juror in his £2.5million civil suit against the city of Los Angeles following the savage attack by four white police officers in 1991.