{"id":5377,"date":"2019-09-30T00:52:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T07:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2019-09-30T00:52:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T07:52:05","slug":"murder-in-west-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/09\/30\/murder-in-west-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder in West Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you saw the film&nbsp;<strong><em>Pacific<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Heights<\/em><\/strong>, you know it\u2019s pretty hard to evict someone in California.&nbsp; Here in West Hollywood, a prominent political activist and donor wasn\u2019t evicted when a random person died in his apartment.&nbsp; He also wasn\u2019t evicted after a second suspicious death in that same apartment.&nbsp; Everything changed when a third person nearly died in the apartment.&nbsp; If you don\u2019t know the story of&nbsp;<strong>Ed Buck<\/strong>, it\u2019s a doozy.&nbsp; In 2017, someone died of an overdose in his apartment during a sexual tryst.&nbsp; But this is West Hollywood, so most people didn\u2019t bat an eye.&nbsp; When an eerily similar incident occurred 18 months later, many saw a pattern.&nbsp; Both victims were black men who overdosed on methamphetamine.&nbsp; But the police said insufficient evidence.&nbsp; When a third African-American man survived a similar scenario a month ago, Buck was arrested and charged with three counts of battery and allegedly injecting the third victim with methamphetamine.&nbsp; He also was charged with operating a \u201cdrug den\u201d in his apartment, which is probably against the rules of his lease.&nbsp; The eviction paperwork was filed last week.<\/p>\n<p>I did a bit more digging.&nbsp; The third victim says he went to Buck\u2019s apartment on September 4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;and was given a large dose of methamphetamine.&nbsp; When he thought he might be overdosing, he left to seek medical attention.&nbsp; But a week later, he returned and was given TWO doses of methamphetamine.&nbsp; I don\u2019t want to be one of those people who blame the victim, but come on!&nbsp; I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re a junkie, I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re with the hottest guy in the world, and I even don\u2019t care if you\u2019re getting paid.&nbsp; If you think you are being overdosed and leave, don\u2019t go back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you saw the film&nbsp;Pacific&nbsp;Heights, you know it\u2019s pretty hard to evict someone in California.&nbsp; Here in West Hollywood, a prominent political activist and donor wasn\u2019t evicted when a random person died in his apartment.&nbsp; He also wasn\u2019t evicted after a second suspicious death in that same apartment.&nbsp; Everything changed when a third person nearly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions\/5386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}