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Richard Zarriello of Chestnut Ridge in Ramapo was found “lying in a pool of blood inside” his Clean Sweep Chimney Depot early Sunday night after South Hackensack police were asked to conduct a welfare check on him, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon.
(This corrects a media report elsewhere that said he was found behind the business.)
He’d been shot “multiple times,” the prosecutor said.
Although robbery hasn’t officially been ruled out, the way in which the 51-year-old Zarriello was killed leads authorities to strongly suspect that he was targeted, sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
“It looked like someone tried to silence him,” one said.
“He was still breathing when [paramedics] got there,” a source said. “But he was in very grave condition.”
Zarriello, who may have been shot on Saturday, remained on life support at Hackensack University Medical Center and died at 3:45 p.m. Monday.
Molinelli today asked that “any member of the public who may have information that could assist in the investigation, including any information relative to persons or vehicles seen in the area of the business on Saturday, April 11, 2015 or Sunday, April 12, 2015 contact the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Confidential TIPS Line at (201) 226-5532 or the South Hackensack Police Department at (201) 440-0042.”
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