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Singer Aaron Carter drowned in bathtub, coroner says

Singer and rapper Aaron Carter by chance drowned in his bathtub resulting from sedatives he’d taken and fuel utilized in spray cleaners he had inhaled, a coroner’s report mentioned Tuesday.

Carter, the youthful brother of the Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter, was discovered submerged and useless at age 34 within the bathtub of his house in Lancaster, California, on Nov. 5, the post-mortem report from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner mentioned.

The sedative alprazolam, usually offered below the model identify Xanax, was present in his system, as was the compressed fuel difluoroethane, which the report says is “a gas commonly used as a propellant in air spray cleaners,” which “can induce feelings of euphoria when inhaled.”

The two substances made him incapacitated within the tub, and induced the drowning, the report mentioned.

The post-mortem was carried out the day after Carter’s demise, however the outcomes have been withheld for toxicology exams, which frequently take months.

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