The son of the writer Paul Auster arrested for the overdose death of his 10-month-old daughter

Daniel Auster, in an image posted on his Instagram account.

Daniel Auster, son of renowned novelist Paul Auster, was arrested last Friday night accused of involuntary manslaughter for the death of his 10-month-old daughter from an overdose of heroin and fentanyl, according to US media citing police sources from the New York City.

The events happened on November 1, when the baby, Ruby Auster, was found unconscious in her house in Park Slope, Brooklyn, after her father called the police and the emergency services came.

The little girl was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital, according to police.

The forensic team determined that Ruby had died due to "acute intoxication" by drugs.

The newspaper

cites in its news neighbors of Daniel Auster and his partner stating that both used to walk the girl in her stroller.

Until one fall day, clothes, toys, books and other baby supplies were left on the street outside the brick row house where the Austers lived.

It is unknown how the girl ingested the drugs.

Daniel Auster's Instagram account is full of photos of his daughter and his mother, in many of the images he is seen posing with her little girl or hugging her.

Auster, 44, is the eldest son of the 2006 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, author of

and

, among many other works.

Daniel Auster has a record for robbery and drug possession.

His name was linked to an infamous murder in the late 1990s when Michael Alig, a well-known nightclub promoter, and his sidekick murdered and dismembered a drug dealer, Andrew Melendez, known as Angel, and dumped his body into the river. Hudson.

Auster pleaded guilty in 1998 to possessing $3,000 that he had stolen from Melendez.

He was never implicated in the crime.

He did not serve time, as he was placed on probation for the robbery.

The

reports that Paul Auster declined to comment after learning of his son Daniel's arrest and indictment.

Both Auster and his second wife, Siri Hustvedt, have used drug addiction in their novels.

In 2003, Hustvedt published

a volume that featured a character who was a drug addict who is eventually arrested in connection with the murder of a drug dealer.

During an interview with the British newspaper

in 2006, Hustvedt refused to talk about Daniel.

“I'm not going to talk about any of that, no.

No,” she said clearly excited.

In Auster's bestseller

, the narrator is a writer whose son is a drug addict.

Daniel is the product of Paul Auster's relationship with his first wife, fellow writer Lydia Davis.

According to the newspaper

Daniel and his father did not seem to have contact at present.

In the past, the writer had included Daniel in his work and he came to play a book thief in the movie

a feature film that revolves around the lives of people who frequented a Brooklyn tobacconist, starring in 1995 by Harvey Keitel and the recently deceased William Hurt.

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