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The 40-year-old man shot himself dead with a hollow-point in an upstairs bedroom while his wife was downstairs at their home off Prospect Avenue near the Dumont border shortly after 5:30 p.m., responders said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene of a single gunshot wound, they said.
Borough police and the Bergen County Medical Examiner's Office responded. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office was notified.
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