nick santino

“It’s more than the dog. I definitely think the dog thing was the last straw. It gave him a reason to do it...He wanted to be in heaven with the dog.”

A board member said: "I'm sorry the man is dead, but it has nothing to do with the pet policy. You just assumed that [his suicide] was a result of a board's decision."

"Today I betrayed my best friend and put down my best friend," Santino wrote in a suicide note, according to close friend Stuart Sarnoff. "Rocco trusted me and I failed him. He didn't deserve this."