AUGUST 30, 2015, 9:25 AM LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2015, 6:43 AM
BY LINDA MOSS, MINJAE PARK AND MARINA VILLENEUVE
STAFF WRITERS |
THE RECORD
By Sunday afternoon, only yellow police tape punctured the normalcy of passing traffic and children playing soccer along the usually tranquil Passaic Avenue in Hasbrouck Heights, but neighbors continued to wonder how a verbal dispute had turned deadly a day earlier.
John C. Wisse, an 83-year-old landlord and former Bergen County employee, was charged with aggravated manslaughter in the shooting of Gerald Velardi Jr., his 58-year-old tenant at the two-story home at 1 Passaic Ave. that the men shared, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said on Twitter.
Details about the two men and what prompted the disagreement that authorities say spiraled out of control remained unclear Sunday, but one neighbor described tension between the men over Wisse’s potential sale of the home, and Wisse’s ex-wife depicted a short-tempered man prone to physical violence.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/hasbrouck-heights-neighbors-puzzle-over-deadly-shooting-1.1401025
