Teen Who Died in Old Bridge Remembered in Wilkes-Barre

The Wilkes-Barre Time Leader reported today on the death of seventeen-year-old Erick McDonald, whose lifeless body was pulled from Raritan Bay at Cliffwood Beach (Old Bridge) early Saturday morning, four days after he was reported missing. The paper reports that the young man had been hit hard by the death of his father in Pennsylvania in mid July. Erick, whose parents were not together, had been living with his father for about a month when he died in July. Before that he had been living with his grandmother. Erick reportedly told a friend that he was heading to New Jersey to attend a concert with a friend. Erick's mother lives in New Jersey. NJ.com et al reported that Erick was from Old Bridge.