Middlesex
County Acting Prosecutor Christopher L.C. Kuberiet and Chief Frank LoSacco of
the East Brunswick Police Department announced today that a 62-year-old man,
his daughter-in-law, and her daughter have been identified as the victims who perished
yesterday in the Township.
Bharat
Patel, 62, his 33-year old daughter-in-law Nisha Patel and her 8-year-old daughter,
all who reside at the home in East Brunswick, have been identified as the victims.
East
Brunswick Police responded to the residence located at 43 Clearview Road at approximately
4:18 pm on June 22, 2020. and found the three victims unresponsive in the pool;
they were pronounced dead shortly after being found.
The
Middlesex County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office has determined the manner
of death as accidental and the cause of death to be drowning for all three victims.
The
investigation is active and is continuing. Anyone with information is asked to
call Detective Kimberly DiParisi of the East Brunswick Police Department at (732)
390-6900, or Detective Mark Morris of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office
at (732) 745-3927.