Rodney King death: 911 calls reveal how fiancee's threw a shovel into pool to wake him
'He's at the bottom of the pool... please hurry up!': Rodney King 911 call reveals fiancee's despair - and how she threw a SHOVEL to try and wake him
- Cynthia Kelley heard urging officers to hurry to King's home after she found Rodney King at the bottom of his swimming pool
- Detectives investigating case as 'accidental drowning'
- Police seen taking marijuana plants out of King's home
- Toxicology tests could take as long as six weeks to gather before officials can confirm how King died
Rodney King's fiancee said in a frantic 911 call that she threw a shovel to try and wake him up after she woke to the sounds of a fall and found him at the bottom of his swimming pool.
Cynthia Kelley can be heard repeatedly urging authorities to hurry to King's Rialto, California, home early on Sunday.
In audio of the call released Tuesday, Kelley tells a dispatcher that she tried to rouse King but he wasn't responding.
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Untimely death: Rodney King, pictured in the swimming pool at his California home, drowned in June
Mysterious: King's fiancee told a 911 dispatcher that she awoke to the sound of King falling into the pool, pictured, and came outside to find him at the bottom of it
'He's not moving,' Kelley said, crying throughout the call.
'I was sleeping, all of a sudden I heard something fall like the table and then I looked over and then I went to find him and he's at the bottom of the swimming pool. He's still there. Please hurry up.'
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ShareThe 5-minute, 15-second phone call ends with the arrival of police officers who pulled King from the pool and began life-saving efforts.
He was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Tragic: Rodney King, 47, was found at the bottom of his swimming pool by fiancee Cynthia Kelley who couldn't jump in to save him as she can't swim
Confiscated: Police technician Noretta Barker puts a marijuana plant into a police car as evidence is gathered from King's home
Police have said they have found no signs of foul play and continue to investigate King's case as an accidental drowning.
Earlier on Tuesday, TMZ reported that King's relationship with Kelley was not going well, and he was considering leaving her.
The site said that Damon Feldman, a longtime friend of King's, told police that he believes there is more to his death than what Kelley is telling them.
Authorities are awaiting toxicology results and said they'll use them in conjunction with an autopsy performed Monday to determine how King died.
Tragic: Rodney King was filmed for a recent interview body boarding in his swimming pool, where he was found dead on Sunday
The dispatcher asked Kelley, whom King met when she was a juror on his civil lawsuit against the four officers who beat him, if she was able to get into the pool to get King out, but she said she couldn't.
She said she tried to 'wake him up,' including throwing a shovel into the water, but he wasn't responding.
At one point, Kelley told dispatchers that the man in the pool was King, 'the guy that got beat by the police.'
Results: King's family will have to wait six weeks before they know how King died
Kelley, who was interviewed by police for several hours Sunday, is heard on the audio saying she needs to call King's family.
It was reported on Tuesday that results from toxicology tests could take as long as six weeks to gather before coroner's officials can determine how Rodney King died.
The outcome will show whether King, who struggled with addiction throughout his life, had any alcohol or drugs in his system at the time of his death.
On the scene: Rialto police stand in front of the home where Rodney King's body was found
Police have said there were no signs of alcohol or drug paraphernalia near the pool.
But officers were seen taking a marijuana plant out of the house Sunday.
King became famous after his severe beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was captured on videotape and broadcast worldwide.
The beating was captured on videotape and broadcast worldwide, as were photos of King's bloodied and bruised face.
Grief: The daughters of Rodney King, Lora (pictured left) and Candice (center), weep as they visit the home of their father where he was found dead on Sunday
Distress: Relatives of Rodney King react to his death outside his home in Rialto, California which had been cordoned off by police
The more than 50 baton blows and kicks inflicted by officers left King with 11 skull fractures, a broken eye socket and facial nerve damage.
The trial of four officers charged with felony assault in the beating ended after a jury with no black members acquitted three of the officers on state charges; a mistrial was declared for a fourth.
The verdict sparked one of the most costly and deadly race riots in the nation's history.
In his recently-published memoir, The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption’, King said that the course of his life had been changed forever by the night of his assault.
Savage: King was beaten by LAPD officers after he failed to pull over in 1991, an incident that spawned the notorious LA riots after the officers were acquitted in the case
Brutally beaten: King was pictured three days after being attacked by members of the LAPD
He described how FBI agents had warned him a riot was expected if the officers were acquitted, and urged him to keep a low profile so as not to inflame passions.
Speaking ahead of the 20th anniversary of the riots, King said racism still has to be challenged. He published a memoir, "The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption," to mark the anniversary
But in an interview earlier this year, he said that he was a happy man.
‘America's been good to me after I paid the price and stayed alive through it all,’ he says. ‘This part of my life is the easy part now.’
LA in flames: The four white police officers were cleared of beating Rodney King, sparking the LA riots in 1992
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