Father of minor charged in the death of Lawrence King found dead
by: Pam Spaulding
Thu Mar 19, 2009 at 10:30:00 AM EDT
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This story is so messed up from every perspective -- Lawrence King, an innocent non-gender-conforming child killed in the classroom, the alleged assailant a clearly disturbed fellow student. Now 15-year-old murder defendant Brandon McInerney is fatherless.
William McInerney, 45, died from blunt-force head injury, said Dr. Janice Frank, the Ventura County assistant medical examiner who conducted an autopsy of the body.
Frank said a contributing cause of death was alcoholism. McInerney had a history of alcohol abuse, she said, declining to elaborate.
McInerney was found dead about 7:30 a.m. on the floor of the living room at his home in the 2500 block of Roosevelt Boulevard. He was discovered by an acquaintance planning to take him to his son's preliminary hearing this morning in Superior Court, said Craig Stevens, a Ventura County senior deputy medical examiner.