Neighbors, colleagues puzzled by apparent suicide of ex-Bergen County Prosecutor John J. Fahy
Friday, July 19, 2013 Last updated: Friday July 19, 2013, 1:36 PM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG AND KIBRET MARKOS
STAFF WRITERS
The Record
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Jay Fahy left his home Wednesday afternoon carrying a piece of paper and a gun. Everything about it seemed odd. Fahy walked outside and turned east, not west. He walked quickly, his head down, jaw set. He did not wave hello.
“It was all so weird,” said Al Raffanello, 56, Fahy’s back-yard neighbor in Rutherford for the past seven years. “He never walks this way — everything he does is to the west. Plus, he always seemed so friendly and happy. But not this time. Wherever he was going, he was determined.”
