{"id":11381,"date":"2017-07-28T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T19:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=11381"},"modified":"2017-07-28T16:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T20:15:04","slug":"son-of-former-brick-mayor-dies-after-jump-from-nyc-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/07\/son-of-former-brick-mayor-dies-after-jump-from-nyc-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of Former Brick Mayor Dies After Jump from NYC Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11382\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/42C7B73800000578-4739512-image-a-107_1501266384108.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11382\" class=\"wp-image-11382 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/42C7B73800000578-4739512-image-a-107_1501266384108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/42C7B73800000578-4739512-image-a-107_1501266384108.jpg 470w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/42C7B73800000578-4739512-image-a-107_1501266384108-400x379.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/42C7B73800000578-4739512-image-a-107_1501266384108-444x420.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glenn Scarpelli<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A former Brick resident who was the son of a longtime mayor jumped from a building in Manhattan with his wife Friday, ending their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The suicidal jump claimed the lives of Glenn Scarpelli and his wife, Patrician Colant. Scarpelli, 53, was the son of former mayor Joseph C. Scarpelli.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident produced headlines in New York on Friday, with the New York Post <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/07\/28\/couple-caught-in-financial-spiral-jump-to-their-deaths\/\">reporting<\/a> the couple left two suicide notes asking that their children be taken care of. A source said the couple was deeply in debt and facing federal tax liens.<\/p>\n<p>The couple plunged to their deaths from a 17-story window at a building on 33rd Street between Park and Madison avenues, according to an NYPD spokesperson, while pedestrians were passing by at 5:45 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tragic jump came after Scarpelli wrote a note titled, \u201cWe had a wonderful life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The couple had children ages 19 and 20, the Post reported. Scarpelli worked as a chiropractor in New York.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2017\/07\/son-of-former-brick-mayor-dies-after-jump-from-nyc-building\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Brick resident who was the son of a longtime mayor jumped from a building in Manhattan with his wife Friday, ending their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,3014,3015],"class_list":["post-11381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-glenn-scarpelli","tag-joseph-c-scarpelli"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/42C7B73800000578-4739512-image-a-107_1501266384108.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2Xz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}