Investigators are seeking witnesses to a brawl involving Fullerton police that led to the death of a homeless man.
Kelly Thomas, 37, became involved in an altercation with officers at the Fullerton bus depot July 5 that left him in critical condition on life-support.
He died five days later at the UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange.
Responding to reports of someone breaking into cars, officers had confronted Thomas, a transient well-known to merchants and officers in downtown Fullerton.
The Orange County Register reported that Thomas, who suffered from schizophrenia, began to struggle as officers tried to search him and that Thomas sustained head and neck injuries.
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