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Police Pepper-Spray Didn't Kill Fair Lawn Man At Paterson Bar -- Alcohol Did, Authorities Find
Paterson police weren’t responsible for the death earlier this year of a 25-year-old Fair Lawn man who’d been involved in a bar fight, state authorities announced Monday. Alcohol was, they said.
In simplified terms, Steven Sherlock drank himself to death, an autopsy showed.
Surveillance video confirmed witnesses’ accounts that Sherlock was involved in a fight with two bar patrons, a man and a woman, at Duffy’s Bar and Tavern on River Street before dawn on March 17, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said.
Sherlock punched the man repeatedly, apparently knocking him out, he said.
Sherlock “…
