Long Island dermatologist who was found dead in Chelsea building died of
A prominent New York doctor who was found unresponsive in a Manhattan doorway died from an acute mix of cocaine and alcohol intoxication.
The October 4 death of Kiersten Cerveny, a 38-year-old doctor from Long Island with a husband and three children, was ruled an accident, according to Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner.
Detectives said Cerveny eventually rode back to a Chelsea apartment building with the producer, a Facebook friend of Cerveny’s identified by police as Marc Henry Johnson.
Police say surveillance video showed Johnson and another man carrying Cerveny’s body down the stairs to the building’s lobby hours later.
Holder, who previously served time for drug and weapons charges, also fled down 16th street. The producer, who recently stepped away from an HBO pilot series he was working on, later told investigators he called cops when his friend turned blue. No one has been charged in connection with the death.
Reports immediately after news of the doctor’s death said that she may have been strangled after marks were discovered on her neck.
Cerveny, who was originally from Washington Township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, had been an assistant professor of clinical dermatology at Weill Cornell Medical College, according to a December. 12, 2009, announcement of her marriage to Andrew Cerveny Jr., also a dermatologist, in The New York Times. After graduating, she earned her medical degree from Tulane. She said Cerveny was “sweet and kind to her patients”. Emergency responders tried to save her, but she died at a hospital. “They took and she was naked from here to up and was without shoes”, he said.
She met her husband in 2004 while both were residents at the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans. “They looked healthy and happy”.