“Gun Death” Beating or Other?

This is a strange one:

A kitchen worker killed at a Malibu restaurant was brutally beaten and staggered to the front of the building before collapsing, investigators said Monday.

The employee was last assigned to trash duty before his body was discovered around 8:30 p.m. Sunday, said Tony Waldrop, manager of Guido’s on the 3800 block of Cross Creek Road.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials initially investigated the case as a shooting death, but are now calling it a beating, which they say occurred near the back of the restaurant.

But later there’s this story:

Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said Wednesday an upper respiratory infection killed a man who was discovered dead in front of a Malibu restaurant.

Carlos Ivan Rodas, 32, was found late Sunday lying in a pool of blood in front of Guido’s restaurant on Cross Creek Road, where he worked.

Initially, investigators said they believed Rodas had been brutally beaten at the rear of the building before staggering to the front door.

But in a statement Wednesday afternoon, sheriff’s officials blamed natural causes.

“It appears there was no criminal conduct related to his death,” officials said in the statement.

The explanation leaves questions about the pool of blood.

Initially they said he was shot…then beaten, now it was an infection???? WTF?

Either way, no guns, no “Gun Death”.

H/T Whipped Cream Difficulties