Man Who Drowned On Seaside Beach With Family Nearby ID'd (Update)

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NJ - The Ocean County Prosecutor's Office has identified the New Brunswick man who drowned off the Freemont Avenue beach on Saturday, a spokesman said.

Amajeets Parmar, 44, was pronounced dead at 10:12 p.m on Saturday night by a physician from Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, said spokesman Al Della Fave said.

Parmar's wife, Sukhpreet, told police they came to the boardwalk for a day trip with their child. But before they left Seaside for the day, Amajeets told his wife he wanted to go swimming. She told him, no, it was too cold.

"The decedent stated he was going to go in and went down onto the beach, while Sukhpreet stayed on the boardwalk with their child and went shopping," Della Fave said. "After a while she noticed police on the beach and realized something was wrong."

Parmar had no medical problems and knew how to swim, he said.

Seaside police responded to the beach after receiving a 911 call at 7:18 p.m. from Jose Cora, who was standing on the beach and noticed a man in the surf calling for help, Della Fave said.

Three Seaside police officers went in the water and found Parmar unresponsive. Members of the Seaside Heights Beach Patrol were on duty that day until 5 p.m. The beach was not guarded when the incident occurred.

Seaside Heights Police Chief Thomas Boyd said the man may have suffered a broken neck by being hit by a large wave, app.com said. Patch will publish the autopsy results as soon as they are available.

Investigators from the Prosecutor's Office went to the scene at 8:35 p.m. and met with Seaside Heights Patrolman Greengrove and St. Violante, Detective Laudicina and Sgt. Burke from the Ocean County Sheriff's Department and the Ocean County Medical Examiner, Della Fave said.

Parmar was taken to Community Medical Center in Toms River.

The National Weather Service had issued a high rip current risk on Saturday, along with waves of 4 to 6 feet. The drowning came after a week of ominous warnings from the weather service of "life-threatening" rip currents and very rough surf.

Photo: by Ocean County Scanner News, published with permission