Coverage continues of the death Saturday night of alleged burglary suspect Deshoun Kenyon Torrence, 18, of Lake Elsinore.

The Press-Telegram, LBReport.com, and the Los Angeles Times are all in, and ask the question we’re all wondering: why he died.

There’s no real answer yet (The Los Angeles County Coroner is scheduled to perform an autopsy today) but all three news outlets have similar takes.

Torrence “may have been hit in the head with a shotgun by the resident of an apartment he was allegedly attempting to burglarize,” the P-T’s Kelly Puente writes, citing Long Beach police as her source.

The Times makes it a two-byline story–Richard Winton and Victoria Kim–and offers this, according to Ed Winter, chief of investigations for the Los Angeles County coroner’s office:

“Based on initial information, Torrence was ’struck by a shotgun butt by a resident and a neighbor,’ [Winter] said.

“Winter said police also used force to restrain Torrence before placing him in the back of a police cruiser. But he cautioned that an autopsy had not yet been performed and ‘we don’t know why he died at this point.’ ”

LBReport.com has this to say, with Long Beach Police Commander Laura Farinella as its source: “The resident says there was a shotgun and it was the suspect’s shotgun. An altercation ensued between the resident and suspect as the resident attempted to detain the suspect until officers arrived.

“The resident got the shotgun from the suspect and the suspect was struck in the head.”

Then, police and paramedics arrived, Torrence was treated for a cut on his head and for lacerations on his hands, and placed in the back of a Long Beach police car.

“He was walking normally,” the manager of the apartment complex where it happened told the P-T. “He looked OK.”

The Times quotes “officials” saying Torrence was “alert, oriented and coherent and answered questions appropriately.”

Once in the back of the squad car, however, he stopped breathing. Police performed CPR, and paramedics returned–but Torrence could not be resuscitated.

He “was pronounced dead by paramedics who returned at 10:10 p.m.,” according to the Times.

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