The Associated Press
KEANSBURG, N.J. (AP) — Brian D. Goode lost his job as a police officer last year when he was accused of betting his badge in a game of pool.
He lost his life this week trying to get away from police.
Officers came to Goode’s apartment above a funeral home Wednesday night to serve him with a warrant for not making child support payments.
They could not find him.
He was hiding in the crawl space under the funeral home. Friends found him there hours later, dead _ apparently of a heart attack.
Monmouth County First Assistant Prosecutor Peter Warshaw told the Asbury Park Press for Friday’s newspapers that no foul play was suspected.
Goode was separated from his wife, Karen Goode, and owed $70,223 in payments to support their three children.
“It’s such a senseless way to die,” she told the newspaper.
She said he was expecting a financial settlement with Keansburg over the loss of his job and eventually would have had the money to pay what he owed. Now, she’s hired a lawyer to stake a claim on the settlement money that her husband will never see.
And the man who lived above a funeral home and died underneath it is to have a viewing on the main floor on Tuesday.
Until the end, he denied offering his badge in a billiards game.