Former Fair Lawn serviceman shoots himself dead

UPDATE: A suicidal Fair Lawn man shot himself dead with a police officer outside his door just after midnight this morning.

Photo Credit: *Cliffview Pilot File Photo*

Jerry DeMarco

08/16/2015 2:35 p.m.

The 33-year-old victim shot himself with a rifle around 12:30 a.m. after the officer responded to a call of a woman screaming out a window for help at the Hollow Run apartment complex on Sperber Road a half-hour earlier, Ronald Patterson told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

The Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps was summoned.

The Bergen County Sheriff’s Office Bureau of Criminal Identification collected evidence.

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