{"id":15037,"date":"2012-06-18T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15037"},"modified":"2012-06-18T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:05:11","slug":"rodney-king-drinking-and-smoking-weed-before-he-drowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15037","title":{"rendered":"Rodney King Drinking and Smoking Weed Before He Drowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rodney King<\/strong>, 47, had been drinking all day and smoking marijuana at his Rialto, California home in the hours before his death, according to his fianc\u00e9e, <strong>Cynthia Kelly<\/strong>, who was a juror in <strong>King\u2019s<\/strong> lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kelly<\/strong> said she went to bed at 2:00 a.m. and was awakened at approximately 5:00 a.m. by <strong>King<\/strong> screaming in the backyard.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, \u201che was naked and banging on the glass,\u201d so she called out to him, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong, <strong>Rodney<\/strong>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She left to get her phone \u2014 to call whom is unknown \u2014 and once her back was turned, she heard \u201ca loud splash.\u201d <strong>Kelly<\/strong> quickly ran over to the pool and saw <strong>King<\/strong> at the bottom of it. She called police at approximately 5:25 a.m. who upon arrival attempted to resuscitate him until paramedics arrived. He was pronounced dead at 6:11 a.m. at Arrowhead Regional Hospital, said Rialto, California police Lt. Dean Hardin.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>King\u2019s<\/strong> friend, <strong>Damon Feldman<\/strong>, he spoke to<strong> Rodney<\/strong> around 4:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon. He was allegedly in a good mood, discussing his revitalized boxing career and an upcoming celebrity match-up against <strong>Jose Canseco<\/strong> that was to be announced during a June 29 press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Police report that<strong> Kelly<\/strong> said <strong>King<\/strong> was an \u201cavid swimmer\u201d and that they did not see any sign of foul play or drug paraphernalia. His death is being treated as a drowning and an autopsy will be performed on his body by the The San Bernardino County coroner within 48 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodney King, 47, had been drinking all day and smoking marijuana at his Rialto, California home in the hours before his death, according to his fianc\u00e9e, Cynthia Kelly, who was a juror in King\u2019s lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles in 1994. Kelly said she went to bed at 2:00 a.m. and was awakened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}