Jan Cilliers, the husband of Christy Giles, reacts after officials determined that the late model died of multiple drug intoxication.
Giles, and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola, 26, were left unresponsive outside two hospitals in Los Angeles after a night out in November. Both tested positive for multiple drugs in their system, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office. Giles died with a mixture of cocaine, fentanyl, ketamine and gamma hydroxybutyrate acid—commonly referred to as GHB or the date rape drug—found in her system, according to her online records reviewed by E! News.
It was “surprising” that drugs were involved in her cause of death. “It’s not like she was a regular drug user, you know what I mean?” he said. “But those two things are very concerning. Because one is a date rape drug and the second one is something that has been killing a lot of people recently.”
Giles was dumped outside of Southern California Hospital in Culver City by three masked men in a black Toyota Prius with no license plate, the police previously said. Three men—David Pearce, 38, Brandt Osborn, 42, and Michael Ansbach, 47—were arrested in December in connection to the deaths.
Both deaths were determined to be homicides, something that Cilliers said he had been “suspecting all along.”
“I’m, firstly relieved that it was ruled a homicide, and that it’s more likely that the DA’s office is going to press charges,” Cilliers told E! News. “Secondly, I’m also very sad that Christy’s last moments were in this situation.”
Pearce was charged with manslaughter while the other two were accused of being accessories to manslaughter in December. Since then, Osborn and Ansbach were released from police custody the same month while Pearce remains in custody on $3.4 million bail from sexual assault charges unrelated to Giles and Cabrales-Arzola cases.
Adapted from E News.
