NORTH BERGEN, N.J. — Authorities are investigating the death of a 48-year-old man who was found unresponsive in a North Bergen residence earlier this week, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office announced Thursday.
Juan Moyet, of North Bergen, was discovered inside a second-floor residence at 9028 Palisade Plaza shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Monday, December 9. Responding officers from the North Bergen Police Department found Moyet lifeless and he was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:50 p.m.
Initially reported as an apparent head injury, the Regional Medical Examiner’s Office determined during a post-mortem exam on Wednesday that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head. The manner of death has been ruled a homicide.
The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit, in collaboration with the North Bergen Police Department, is actively investigating the case.
Anyone with information about Moyet’s death is urged to contact the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. The investigation remains ongoing.