ROCHESTER, Minn – The death of Scottish singer and actor Darius Campbell Danesh on August 11 died from inhaling the drug chloroethane, an autopsy concluded. The drug is a colorless gas to numb skin before a medical procedure. Although a prescription drug, chloroethane also available from black market sources for recreational purposes. How Danesch obtained chloroethane was not known. He had been in Rochester for treatment at the Mayo Clinic. The autopsy, by the Southern Minnesota Regional Medical Examiner’s Office declared the death was accidental due to chloroethane-related suffocation.
Danesh. Died from inhaling a medical numbing agent.