Overview
- Attorney for Isaiah Hodgson, 29, told a Long Beach Superior Court judge that he died of a drug overdose in August at his parents’ home in Riverside County.
- Riverside County sheriff’s officials said deputies found no evidence of foul play when Hodgson was discovered on Aug. 22 in an unincorporated area near Hemet.
- The L.A. County Medical Examiner has not released an autopsy report that could clarify the cause and circumstances of death.
- Hodgson faced three felony counts of resisting an executive officer, one felony count of battery with injury on a peace officer, and misdemeanor firearm charges stemming from a July 7 Long Beach incident.
- Newly released bodycam and surveillance video show Hodgson intoxicated, armed, resisting officers, and being tased during the Long Beach arrest; he had earlier been identified in viral footage of a June 17 Pico Rivera immigration raid.