Daniel Auster, the 44-year-old son of famed writer Paul Auster, has been charged with negligent manslaughter after the overdose death of his ten-month-old daughter. A dark affair revealed by the New York police on Sunday April 17, 2022.
Dark affair for the family of Paul Auster…
On Sunday, April 17, 2022, the New York police announced the indictment of the son of the famous American writer with manslaughter and negligence after the overdose death of his ten-month-old daughter.
Daniel Auster, 44, was in charge of his daughter Ruby on Nov. 1 at his Brooklyn home when the baby was found unconscious. She was rushed to hospital where she died. The Chief Medical Examiner’s Office concluded that the death was due to “acute intoxication due to the combined effects of fentanyl and heroin“, the police told AFP. “The incident was ruled a homicide“After consultation with the district attorney’s office, police added, saying Daniel Auster had been arrested and charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. According to local media in New York, he was arrested on Friday evening.
Daniel Auster had a run-in with the police before in 1996 when André “Angel” Melendez, a suspected drug trafficker, was murdered. The writer’s son was not involved in the crime. He pleaded guilty to possession of $3,000 that was stolen from Melendez, and was sentenced to probation. Two other people had pleaded guilty to Melendez’s murder, and confessed to dumping his body in the Hudson River.
Paul Auster is one of New York’s most renowned writers, author notably of the New York Trilogy, Moon Palace and Leviathan.
In his novel The night of the oraclepublished in 2003, the narrator is a writer whose son is a drug addict.
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