Hasbrouck Heights landlord, 83, held on $750,000 bail in tenant shooting death

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An 83-year-old Hasbrouck Heights man killed his 58-year-old tenant with a single gunshot to the chest during an argument yesterday, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this morning.

Jerry DeMarco

08/29/2015 10:00 p.m.

John C. Wisse was charged with aggravated manslaughter and illegal weapons possession in the death of Gerald Velardi Jr. at the two-family Passaic Street home after sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT he dialed 911 around 5 p.m. to report what had happened.

The .38-caliber handgun was recovered following the downstairs shooting, the prosecutor said.

Wisse was being held on $750,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail after detectives who interviewed him late into the night charged him.

The investigation was continuing, Molinelli said.

MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR

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