The New York Post reports that the younger brother of Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard has been charged in the death of his brother.
According to the report, Derek Boogard had been out of drug rehab for only one day before his brother Aaron Boogaard gave him a unprescribed narcotic pain pill at the start of an evening of night-clubbing, drug-taking and heavy drinking that resulted in his death, prosecutors alleged Friday.
The complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court says that Aaron Boogaard told authorities that gave his brother a single dose of oxycodone the night before he found Derek Boogaard dead in their Minneapolis apartment May 13.
“This is a very tragic situation,” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman told reporters. “Most of us know someone who’s had problems, troubles with alcohol or drugs. And most of us know that a person, the day they get out of treatment, shouldn’t receive for any reason the drugs that put him in treatment in the first place.”
Aaron Boogaard will also be charged with interfering with the scene of a death for allegedly flushing the rest of his brother’s drug stash — a mix of oxycodone and related drugs — down the toilet before police arrived.
Source: New York Post
