The son of writer Paul Auster accused of murdering his daughter, who died of an overdose at ten months

Overdose at ten months. A combination of fentanyl and heroin that killed in New York last November Ruby Austernephew of the writer Paul Auster. The New York Times. The child’s father, Daniel Auster44, was charged with his death, police said.

The girl was found unconscious on November 1 in a house on Bergen Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and was pronounced dead in hospital. Also according to police reports, quoted by the New York newspaper, the medical examiner’s office subsequently established that she died of “acute intoxication” from drugs. Auster was charged with manslaughter and was taken to the district attorney’s office.

Twenty-six years ago the son of the author of New York Trilogy he had been involved in a notorious murder case he saw Michael Aligand his accomplice killing the drug dealer Andrew Melendez and then throw the body into the Hudson. Auster later claimed he had stolen $ 3,000 from Melendez and was sentenced to probation.