Guilty shooter Michael Alig Died at the age of 54, e! The news can confirm.
According to the New York Police Department, law enforcement responded to a 9-1-1 call on West 159 on Dec. 25, where they found Alig unconscious and unresponsive. The EMS arrived shortly afterwards, according to a police report, and pronounced Elig dead. Although it is unclear what caused her death, NBC New York says she passed out due to a suspected overdose. The cause of death has not yet been determined and an investigation is still ongoing, according to officials.
In the ’90s, Elig, a promoter, co-founded a group called “Club Kids”, the parties that became infamous in the New York City nightclub scene. It became a tabloid fixture for throwing parties as well as for their theatrical costumes and drug use. However, in 1997, when he and a friend objected Robert “Freeze” Riggs pleaded guilty To kill his drug dealer and friend Andre “Angel” Melandis. Riggs and Ellig, who claimed they were addicted to drugs at the time of the murder, are said to have kept Melandez’s body in their apartment for a week – and had their bodies mutilated in a tub on his body – to disintegrate his body and In the Hudson River before disposal.
