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He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 6:11 am, police said. \u003cbr/\u003ePolice Captain Randy De Anda said King had been by the pool throughout the early morning and had been talking to his fiance, who was inside the home at the time. \u003cbr/\u003eA statement from police said the preliminary investigation indicated a drowning, with no signs of foul play. \u003cbr/\u003eInvestigators will await autopsy results to determine whether drugs or alcohol were involved, but De Anda said there were no alcoholic beverages or paraphernalia found near the pool.\u003cbr/\u003eAuthorities didn't identify the fiance. \u003cbr/\u003eKing earlier said he was engaged to Cynthia Kelley, one of the jurors in the civil rights case that gave King 3.8 (m) million US dollars in damages. \u003cbr/\u003eDe Anda said King had another visitor that night but that person had left earlier.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 1992 riots, which were set off by the acquittals of the officers who beat King, lasted three days and left 55 people dead, more than 2,000 injured and swaths of Los Angeles on fire. \u003cbr/\u003eAt the height of the violence, King pleaded on television: \"Can we all get along?\"\u003cbr/\u003eKing, a 25-year-old on parole from a robbery conviction, was stopped for speeding on a darkened street on March 3, 1991. \u003cbr/\u003eHe was on parole and had been drinking - he later said that led him to try to evade police. \u003cbr/\u003eFour Los Angeles police officers hit him more than 50 times with their batons, kicked him and shot him with stun guns, leaving King with numerous skull fractures, a broken eye socket and facial nerve damage.\u003cbr/\u003eA man who had quietly stepped outside his home to observe the commotion videotaped most of it and turned a copy over to a TV station. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was played over and over for the following year, inflaming racial tensions across the country.\u003cbr/\u003eIt seemed that the videotape would be the key evidence to a guilty verdict against the officers, whose felony assault trial was moved to the predominantly white suburb of Simi Valley, California. \u003cbr/\u003eInstead, on April 29, 1992, a jury with no black members acquitted three of the officers on state charges in the beating; a mistrial was declared for a fourth.\u003cbr/\u003eViolence erupted immediately, starting in South Los Angeles.\u003cbr/\u003ePolice, seemingly caught off guard, were quickly outnumbered by rioters and retreated. \u003cbr/\u003eAs the uprising spread to the city's Koreatown area, shop owners armed themselves and engaged in running gun battles with looters.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the riots, a white truck driver named Reginald Denny was pulled by several black men from his cab and beaten almost to death. \u003cbr/\u003eHe required surgery to repair his shattered skull, reset his jaw and put one eye back into its socket.\u003cbr/\u003eKing himself, in his recently published memoir, \"The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption,\" said FBI agents 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.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the two decades after he became the central figure in the riots, King was arrested several times, mostly for alcohol-related crimes, the last in Riverside Calif., last July. He later became a record company executive and a reality TV star, appearing on shows such as \"Celebrity Rehab.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIn an interview earlier this year with The Associated Press, King said he was a happy man.\u003cbr/\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe San Bernardino County coroner will perform an autopsy on King within 48 hours.\u003cbr/\u003eRialto, California - 17 June 2012\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various exteriors of Rodney King's house where he was found dead\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Capt. Randy de Anda, Rialto Police Department:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Rialto police department received a 911 call this morning at about 5:25 am from the fiance of Mr. King. She called to report that she had heard a splash in the rear yard. She went out to follow up with the splash she heard and she found Mr. King floating at the bottom of their pool. He was found in the deep end.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide shot of house\u003cbr/\u003e4. Pan from police cars to front of house\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Capt. Randy de Anda, Rialto Police Department:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's being investigated as a drowning. At this time I do not know what Mr. King's toxicology was or whether he was intoxicated or whether he was under the influence of any substances. That will be revealed after there's an autopsy, completed by the San Bernardino County coroner's office.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide shot of house\u003cbr/\u003e7. Various of police cars outside house\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Capt. Randy de Anda, Rialto Police Department:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There was no outward signs of paraphernalia and or any alcoholic beverages, however that'll be determined through the investigation with the detectives.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Various of pool, where Rodney King was found \u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of family members outside King home talking to police and consoling each other\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Cory Hudson, King's cousin who lives around the corner:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's just sad. I feel bad for all the family members. It's been rough, and he was just getting his life really together. It's rough\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dee Schnepf-Ewing, Neighbour:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The best neighbour you could ever hope for. He used to mow my husband's front yard and they'd borrow tools back and forth. They were really good friends. He was the best neighbour we ever had.\" \u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, California ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++\u003cbr/\u003e13. Video of Rodney King being beaten by police\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, California - 25 April 2012\u003cbr/\u003e14. 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