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Police Investigating Man Found Dead Inside Pierre Hotel

By  Ben Fractenberg and Murray Weiss | April 23, 2015 3:08pm 

 Davis Evans, 29, was found dead inside his Pierre Hotel room Thursday morning, April 23, 2015.
Davis Evans, 29, was found dead inside his Pierre Hotel room Thursday morning, April 23, 2015.
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UPPER EAST SIDE — A 29-year-old man was found dead inside the tony Pierre Hotel Thursday morning of an apparent prescription drug overdose, according to sources and police.

A hotel maid found Davis Evans, of Athens, Georgia, unconscious inside his hotel room at the East 61st Street hotel at about 9 a.m.

His girlfriend was still asleep in bed, police sources said. 

There were no obvious signs of trauma, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The medical examiner will determine Evans' officials cause of death.