Son of Author Paul Auster Charged in Fatal Overdose of 10-Month-Old Daughter

A ten-month-old woman in Brooklyn died from a mixture of fentanyl and heroin, and her 44-year-old father, Daniel Auster — son of the well-known novelist Paul Auster — was charged in her demise, the police stated.

The woman, Ruby Auster, was discovered unconscious on Nov. 1 at a house on Bergen Road in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and was pronounced lifeless at a hospital, the police stated. The medical expert’s workplace later decided that she died from “acute intoxication” of the medicine, the police stated.

Mr. Auster was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent murder after conferral with the district lawyer’s workplace, the police stated. Details about Mr. Auster’s lawyer was not instantly accessible.

Exterior the Bergen Road rowhouse on Saturday, two neighbors stated that Mr. Auster and his associate had been pleasant as they strolled with their child. However at some point within the fall, a jumble of child objects — garments, books and toys — appeared on the sidewalk outdoors, and neighbors discovered that the child had died.

The police referred questions on how the child was uncovered to the medicine to the medical expert’s workplace, which didn’t instantly return a name for remark.

In 1996, Daniel Auster performed a minor position in a infamous nightlife homicide case, by which the membership promoter Michael Alig and an confederate killed and dismembered a drug vendor, Andrew Melendez, also referred to as Angel, and threw his physique within the Hudson River.

Mr. Auster pleaded responsible in 1998 to possessing $3,000 that had been stolen from Mr. Melendez and was sentenced to probation. He was not implicated within the killing.

A police spokesman confirmed that the Daniel Auster charged within the demise of Ruby Auster had been arrested in 1998 on fees of possessing stolen property and that the fees had been related to a homicide cost in opposition to Mr. Alig.

In 2003, Daniel Auster’s stepmother, Siri Hustvedt, revealed a novel, “What I Beloved,” by which one character is a drug addict and is finally arrested in reference to the homicide of a drug vendor. In Paul Auster’s 2003 novel “Oracle Evening,” the narrator is a author whose son is a drug addict.