Shawn M. Crahan (a.k.a. Clown) spoke to DesMoinesRegister.com about the involuntary manslaughter charges
brought against a Des Moines, Iowa, doctor today (Wednesday, September 5) in connection with the death of the band’s bassist, Paul Gray. Physician Daniel Baldi is accused of prescribing large amounts of narcotic painkillers to patients who later died of overdoses, including Gray.
Asked about the charges against Baldi, Crahan said, “None of it is going to bring back our brother Paul.”
He added, “This epidemic of this sort of activity is becoming more and more … evident. It truly is becoming a problem amongst people. And it trickles all the way down to the youth. And awareness needs to be brought about.”
Crahan made it clear that he was referring to “not only substance abuse but the ability to acquire substances, to get chemicals and the efficiency of it.”
“Hopefully justice will be served,” he said.
According to charging documents released at the doctor’s court hearing today, Baldi is believed to have unintentionally caused the death of Paul Gray by writing “high-dose prescription narcotics to a known drug addict” starting on December 27, 2005.
Paul was found dead in a hotel room in May 2010 in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, leaving behind his wife Brenna and daughter October. He was 38 years old.
Source: www.blabbermouth.net