Hmmm, his family and friends are claiming foul play. If the girlfriend didn’t do Rodney in, his family and friends are likely to claim the Rialto cops did it.
WE THINK IT WAS FOUL PLAY: FAMILY OF RODNEY KING SAYS HE WAS A STRONG SWIMMER TRYING TO TURN HIS LIVE AROUND
Several neighbors say they heard ‘out-of-character’ noises from King’s house
By David Gardner
Mail Online
June 18, 2012
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.
‘My cousin is 6ft 5in tall. He could swim. He could surf. He did all that stuff. He drowned? Okay, how? The pool was only six feet deep,’ Anderson told a local TV network.
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.
Neighbors reported hearing music, talking and crying before a big splash in the early hours of the morning. Police said they received an emergency call at 5.25 am and King was pronounced dead about half an hour later.
Neighbor Sandra Gardea, 31, reportedly heard a commotion in King’s back garden at about 3am.
‘It just sounded like someone was really sad,’ she said. ‘There was a lot of moaning and crying. Another person was trying to console that person.’
She added that it was several hours later when she heard a splash, and that’s when police and paramedics arrived.
Explaining why Kelley didn’t jump into the pool, Rialto police Captain Randy DeAnda said she ‘is not a great swimmer’.
He added there were no signs of life when King’s body was pulled to the side by an officer. There were no indications around the pool of any alcohol use or drug paraphernalia.
‘It’s being investigated as an accidental drowning,’ he said. ‘There’s no sign of foul play and no sign of trauma to the body.’
RIP Rodney King began trending on Twitter soon after the news broke with public figures and celebrities leading the tributes.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson, wrote: 'Saddened by the passing of Rodney King. I'd know him over the years & when I interviewed him recently, His life seemed to be on a high note.'
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