The Hotel he was in , the Days Inn in Glendale, is kind of seedy and makes no sense for him to be there with an adult male, when he lives there in that town.
Rumors around town are that it was his boyfriend he was getting high with. And I tend to believe that. Men don't usually hang out in seedy motels together , as a general rule.
Taurus rising, with Venus, its chart ruler in the 7th in Scorpio. That feels like a romantic relationship, combined with the Mars /Chiron conjunction in Aries in the 12th, indicating he may have been hiding something and/or conflicted about his masculinity/sexuality/sexual identity.