Drugs, alcohol led to Rodney King’s death, coroner concludes
LOS ANGELES (MCT) — Rodney King’s struggles with addiction thrust him into public consciousness more than two decades ago, as a drunken driver bludgeoned by Los Angeles police. In June the same affliction led to his death, medical examiners have concluded.
King, an avid swimmer, drowned in the pool of his Rialto, Calif., home in the early morning of June 17 after slipping into a “state of drug and alcohol-induced delirium,” according to a San Bernardino County Coroner’s report released Thursday.
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