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The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said it has ended its probe into Actress Anne Heche’s fiery car crash a day after doctors declared her brain dead. The award winning actress smashed her car into a two-storey Los Angeles home on August 5. The actress was placed on life support for potential organ donation.
“As of
today, there will be no further investigative efforts made in this case,” the
department announced Friday, The Associated Press reported. “Any information or
records that have been requested prior to this turn of events will still be
collected as they arrive as a matter of formalities and included in the overall
case. When a person suspected of a crime expires, we do not present for filing
consideration.”
What caused Anne Heche's fiery car crash?
Detectives
determined that Heche’s blood sample contained narcotics.
Her car
erupted in flames and so did the building which took 59 firefighters more than
an hour to put off after the fiery crash. A woman who was in the building
sustained injuries and was treated in hospital but the house remains
uninhabitable after the incident.
Heche
suffered severe burns and was left with "a severe anoxic brain
injury" - when the brain is deprived of oxygen - her family said,
according to BBC.
Anne Heche "legally dead"
A
representative for the actress said the late actress is “legally dead,” adding
that her life support treatment will continue so as to find possible match for
a potential organ donation.
The actress
was under investigation for driving under the influence (DUI).
Toxicology
tests could take weeks to complete and must be performed to identify the drugs
more clearly and to differentiate them from any other medication she may have
been given for treatment at the hospital, according to ABC News.
Live and Times of Anne Heche
Heche was
born in 1969 in Ohio but her father died of HIV/Aids, when she was 13 years old,
according to BBC.
The actress
accused the father in a 2001 memoir Call Me Crazy of repeatedly raping her as a
child.
The BBC
reported that in interviews promoting her book, Heche said the abuse caused her
to be "insane" for the first 31 years of her life and that she had
created a fantasy world called the "Fourth Dimension" to make herself
feel safe.
Heche
suffered from mental health problems and also struggled with drug use and was
hospitalized after parking on a highway in California and walking into the
desert at some point.