Trouble Seems To Follow Rodney

Trouble-That's something Rodney King knows something about.
Seems he can't even ride his bike down the street minding his own
business then trouble rears it's ugly head. The story below
explains it all and after reading it let us know what ya think.


The troubles of Rodney King -- whose videotaped beating by four Los Angeles police officers and their subsequent acquittal touched off riots in 1992 -- continued late Wednesday night when he was shot in shoulder with pellets likely fired from a shotgun while biking in San Bernardino, police said today.

After interviewing King at the hospital this afternoon, police said he reported that two suspects, a man and a woman, approached him and demanded his bicycle. When King rode away, he was shot.

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FOR THE RECORD:
Earlier versions of this article said King was shot in Rialto, and with a pellet gun.

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He was recovering from a minor shoulder injury today, according to San Bernardino police Lt. Scott Paterson. Initially, Rialto police said King was shot in the face, upper torso and back.

King called Rialto police at 11:40 p.m. and told them he had been shot at 5th Street and North Meridian Avenue in San Bernardino before pedaling his bike home, according to Rialto police Sgt. Don Lewis.

"We sent a couple of officers out to his address here in Rialto, but he didn't really tell us a whole lot other than he'd been shot," Lewis said. "It looked like birdshot, looked like long-distance shot."

Lewis said Rialto police turned the incident over to police in San Bernardino when King said he had been shot in that community.





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