George Holliday, man who caught Rodney King beating on video, has died at 61

George Holliday, the Los Angeles plumber who shot grainy video of four white police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King in 1991, has died of complications of COVID-19, a friend said Monday.

Holliday, 61, died Sunday at a Los Angeles hospital, where he had been for more than a month,  Robert Wollenweber, a longtime friend and former coworker, told CBS News. A call to Holliday's brother wasn't answered, but the voicemail message said he couldn't answer because he was "mourning."

Holliday wasn't vaccinated and was on a ventilator in recent days after contracting pneumonia, Wollenweber told The Associated Press.