American writer Paul Auster’s son, Daniel Auster, who was charged with manslaughter in mid-April after the death of his 10-month-old daughter, died in New York on Tuesday, police said on Thursday, with the press also hearing from a overdose spoke .
Daniel Auster, 44, was found “unconscious” on a Brooklyn subway platform on the morning of April 20 and taken to the hospital, where he died on April 26, a city spokesman told AFP NYPD.
According to police sources quoted by the New York Post tabloid, the actor succumbed to an “accidental overdose.”
The 40-year-old was arrested ten days ago for manslaughter and criminal negligence against his daughter Ruby, charged and released on bail. During his detention on November 1 at his Brooklyn home, the baby was found unconscious. At the hospital, the little girl died “of acute poisoning from the combined effects of fentanyl and heroin,” police said.
The number of drug overdoses continues to rise in New York
Paul Auster, 75, is one of New York’s most renowned writers, translated worldwide, author of The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace and Leviathan. He is married to American writer and essayist Siri Hustvedt, but Daniel Auster’s mother is American writer Lydia Davis. In Auster’s novel The Night of the Oracle, the narrator is a writer whose son is a drug addict.
The number of drug overdoses continues to rise in New York. They killed 1,233 people in the first half of 2021 (965 in the same period of 2020), 2,062 people in 2020 – in the midst of a pandemic – (less than 1,500 in 2019 and less than 1,000 in 2015), which the Poor and Afro affected – Americans. Eligible in 77% of cases in New York in 2020 was fentanyl, a potent and dangerous synthetic opioid mixed with heroin or cocaine, a cocktail that killed cult series “The Wire” star Michael K. Williams on September 6 .. The United States broke a record of more than 100,000 deaths from April 2020 to April 2021.