{"id":5402,"date":"2015-07-07T14:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2015-07-07T14:08:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:08:29","slug":"seizure-condition-contributed-to-mans-drowning-off-mantoloking-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/07\/seizure-condition-contributed-to-mans-drowning-off-mantoloking-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Seizure Condition Contributed to Man&#8217;s Drowning Off Mantoloking Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report from the Ocean County Medical Examiner\u2019s office states a 22-year-old man from Yonkers, N.Y. suffered a seizure while swimming the afternoon of July 4, which contributed to his drowning death.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, John A. Crimmins, the victim, was an \u201cavid surfer and a lifeguard,\u201d said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office. He was swimming with friends, however none of them realized he was missing until he disappeared from sight off the Lyman Street beach in Mantoloking, which is unguarded.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5369\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11041222_406296719568441_6921266410529325607_n.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5369\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11041222_406296719568441_6921266410529325607_n-240x160.jpg\" alt=\"A map of where a victim died, and was later found, in Mantoloking and Bay Head. (Credit: Ocean County Prosecutor's Office)\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11041222_406296719568441_6921266410529325607_n-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11041222_406296719568441_6921266410529325607_n-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of where a victim died, and was later found, in Mantoloking and Bay Head. (Credit: Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Crimmins\u2019 body was found a short time later by lifeguards in Bay Head.<\/p>\n<p>Crimmins had a medical condition which caused seizures, authorities learned, a fact that was confirmed by the medical examiner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe post mortem examination determined the cause of death is drowning; naming idiopathic epileptic seizures contributing to the event,\u201d said Dr. Lyla Perez, of the medical examiner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor\u2019s office has officially closed its investigation, \u201cand offers our heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of John Crimmins,\u201d Della Fave said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/07\/seizure-condition-contributed-to-mans-drowning-off-mantoloking-beach\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from the Ocean County Medical Examiner\u2019s office states a 22-year-old man from Yonkers, N.Y. suffered a seizure while swimming the afternoon of July 4, which contributed to his drowning death. Apparently, John A. Crimmins, the victim, was an \u201cavid surfer and a lifeguard,\u201d said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5369,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,1485,1482],"class_list":["post-5402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-john-a-crimmins","tag-yonkers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11041222_406296719568441_6921266410529325607_n.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1p8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402","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=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}