Rodney King, 47, found dead at his California home on Sunday, police said his fiancée discovered him at the bottom of the swimming pool at their Rialto, Calif., home, about 55 miles east of Los Angeles.
King’s videotaped beating by police sparked riots in Los Angeles in 1991.
On being alerted early in the morning, police went to the scene and pulled King out of the pool and attempted CPR, but could not revive him, Yahoo! News reported.
“Rialto police officers responded to the location and removed him from inside of the pool and began CPR,” Rialto Police Capt. Randy De Anda told KNX Newsradio. “The Rialto Fire Department paramedics responded and transported Mr. King to the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead at 6.11 am.”
Preliminary information showed no signs of foul play, he said.
According to TMZ, King’s fiancée, Cynthia Kelley, told friends King spent the bulk of Saturday drinking and “smoked marijuana at some point,” before she went to went to bed at 2.00 am.
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