Rodney King just got shot

By PAUL LAROCCO
The Press-Enterprise

Rodney King was apparently shot and wounded on a San Bernardino street corner late Wednesday night before biking home to Rialto to report the incident, police said.

King, the 42-year-old man who gained national fame when his 1991 beating by Los Angeles police was caught on videotape, called Rialto police at 11:39 p.m. to report the shooting, said Sgt. Don Lewis.

He had been struck in the face and arm with a shotgun, Lewis said. King reported that the shooting occurred at 5th Street and Meridian Avenue in San Bernardino, just east of the Rialto city line.

After police arrived at King's Jackson Street home, King and others inside appeared intoxicated, Lewis said, and few were cooperative in providing information.

Rialto officers contacted San Bernardino police to take over the investigation. King was then taken to a local hospital, where his condition is unknown this morning. The wounds were not believed to be life-threatening, Lewis said.

 

This guy should have played in the NFL. It took five cops with nightsticks about 20 minutes to subdue him, and then he gets shot 16 years later, and still gets on a bike and pedals to the hospital.

Freakin' guy is Superman.

 

After police arrived at King's Jackson Street home, King and others inside appeared intoxicated, Lewis said, and few were cooperative in providing information.

stop snitchin'

 

Shot and drunk apparently and able to bike home. Take that, Lance Armstrong!

Unless the bike is a motorcycle, of course.

The comment about King and others being drunk and uncooperative tells me there's more to this story beneath the sheets.

 

Anybody get it on video?

I'm sure it was just wrong place at the wrong time. What a waste of air this guy is.

Howard Stern was right, the cops should have beat him more.

 

So I guess we can't all get along.

 

Wikipedia article says he's dead.

 

Than he is one tough son of a bitch if he could get through all that dead.

 

That was fast. They updated the entry and he's no longer dead.

 

I was so going there.

 

Was he hunting with Bobby Knight?

 

Nice to see he's upgraded from the Hyundai ...