By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, November 2, 1990
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New York City police are investigating the shooting death of a 21-year-old Closter man found lying next to his car Thursday on an exit ramp of the Henry Hudson Parkway in upper Manhattan.
Police did not know the motive or circumstances surrounding the shooting of Michael Papalia of 21 Oak St., said 34th Precinct Detective Michael Pisano, who is investigating.
Pisano said that although police found $6 on Papalia, they are not ruling out robbery. Papalia was shot once in the head.
Early indications were that the death was not related to drugs or violence connected to Halloween, the detective said.
Emergency Medical Services technicians on patrol found Papalia on the northbound side of the Henry Hudson Parkway at the Cloisters exit ramp at about 3 a.m., Pisano said.
After attempting to revive him, the EMS technicians took Papalia to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 3:45 a.m., Pisano said.
Papalia was a 1987 graduate of Northern Valley Regional High School in Demarest, school officials said.
The Rev. Simon Kenny of St. Mary’s R.C. Church in Closter said the family belongs to his parish.
Capt. John Rose, Closter acting chief of police, said he did not know the Papalias, but knew the family had lived in the borough for a long time.
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