By Associated Press - Tuesday, April 14, 2015

SOUTH HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) - Authorities have released few details about the shooting that killed the owner of a chimney sweep business in Bergen County.

The prosecutor’s office says 51-year-old Richard Zarriello of Chestnut Ridge, New York, was found gravely wounded in his Clean Sweep Chimney Depot store on Route 46 in South Hackensack on Sunday.

Zarriello died at a hospital on Monday.



The prosecutor’s office says it is treating his death as a homicide.

Copyright © 2026 The Washington Times, LLC.

Please read our comment policy before commenting.