SOMERVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT SOMERVILLE, NJ ‘Iycpenr# /Revorr ¢ Orricer ‘RANK Revi is 15004248 / 1 OFCJOSEPH ZUZA OFFICER APPROVED INCIDENT #15004248 DATA As Of 04/17/2015 12:15:03 Basic INFORMATION Case TLE, ‘Location Arr/UNIT é UNATTENDED DEATH 63 WEST END AVE, n ‘DATE/TIME REPORTED, DATE/TIME OccuRRED Mon 04/13/2015 11:40 ‘Wed 04/01/2015 12:00 to Mon 04/13/2015 11:40 INCIDENT TYPE(S) /OFFENSE(S) (SVL-60)UNATTENDED DEATH ‘PERSONS Rout ‘NAME SEX Rack VICTIM HOROWITZ, PHILIP 1, MALE WHITE REPORTING PERSON JASSIL, RAJINDER S MALE. UNKNOWN, REPORTING PERSON CHAVEZ, REGINA FEMALE WHITE [NO OFFENDERS } [NO VEHICLES] [NO PROPERTY] OFFICER REPORT: 15004248 - 1 / OFC JOSEPH ZUZA (9138) ‘Dare/fuve or Rerort ‘wre oF Rerorr ‘REVIEW Starus 04/19/2015 14:39:08 INCIDENT ‘APPROVED. NARRATIVE, OW 04/13/15 AT 1140 HRS., THE UNDERSIGNED RESPONDED TO 63 WEST END AVENUE, APART #11, FOR A WELFARE CHECK, UPON MY ARRIVAL 1 MET AND SPOKE WITH THE REPORTING PARTIES, PROPERTY OWNER RAJINDER JASSIL, AND REGINA CHAVEZ, A FACILITY EVALUATOR WITH THE STATE HEALTH DEPARTWENT. MS. CHAVEZ INFORMED ME THAT SHE HAD CONE TO THE APARTMENT 70 EVALUATE THE SANITARY CONDITIONS DUE 70 A COMPLAINT THE STATE RECEIVED ABOUT THE APARTMENT. MS. CHAVEZ WENT ON TO STATE THAT WHEN SHE AND MR. JASSIL APPROACHED THE FRONT DOOR TO THE APARTMENT THEY OBSERVED A LARGE AMOUNT OF FLIES ON THE INSIDE OF THE WINDOWS AND A STRONG ODOR COMING FROM WITHIN THE APARTMENT. AS A RESULT, THEY CONTACTED THE POLICE PRIOR TO ENTERING THE APARTMENT. AY THAT TIME I HAD NR. JASSIL UNLOCK THE DOOR AND I ENTERED THE APARTMENT. I IMMEDIATELY SMELLED A STRONG ODOR OF DECOMPOSITION AS I ENTERED AND FOUND THE RESIDENT, IDENTIFIED AS PHILIP L. HOROWITZ, DECEASED ON THE BED IN THE CENTER OF THE ROOM, MR. HOROWITZ BODY DISPLAYED HEAVY DECOMPOSITION, DISCOLORATION OF THE SKIN, AND EXTRENE BLOATING IN THE ABDONEN. MR. HOROWITZ WAS NUDE, LAYING BACK ON THE BED WITK HIS FEET ON THE GROUND AND HIS HEAD FACING WEST. UPON ENTRY, I OBSERVED THAT TWO OF THE BURNERS ON THE STOVE TO THE RIGHT OF THEREPORT OFFICERS Reporting Officer Reviewing Officer: Approving Officer: (OFC JOSEPH ZUZA SGT SEAN KIERNAN CAPT JOSEPH CLYMORE 9138 aya