Palacios testified that most people who have someone die in their home “show empathy.” Buck, he said, “wanted to talk about different things” and show the deputy photos of famous people hanging on his walls.until September 2019, after a third Black man, Dane, overdosed in his apartment and survived.
He picked up Dane and drove him to a Motel 6 in the San Fernando Valley, where they smoked meth. They then moved to a MacArthur Park motel, where, despite Dane saying he did not feel well, Buck injected him six times in a 24-hour period, he testified. On Sept. 4, 2019, after his third injection of the day, Dane feared he was having a heart attack, he said. Buck dropped him off at urgent care, then he went to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was treated and released.Six days later, Buck offered him money. He was broke and desperate so he went back. Buck injected him three times with meth and had given him the so-called date rape drug GHB, Dane testified.
He walked to a nearby gas station, where an employee called 911. He wiped away tears after prosecutors played video of paramedics strapping him onto a gurney.Thomas, 36, who worked as an escort and met Buck through Adam4Adam, testified that he “was very woozy” after the first time Buck injected him. He faded in and out of consciousness. When he awoke, he said, Buck “was choking me. He slapped me. He even caressed my face.
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