Woman, 56, Killed By South Amboy Teen In Hit-And-Run, Police Charge

BRICK, NJ — A 56-year-old woman who worked as a health/wellness entrepreneur has been identified as the person allegedly hit by a South Amboy teenage boy on Rt. 35 in Brick on Jan. 13.

The South Amboy teen is Mark Carey Jr., 19. He is accused of hitting the woman with his 1999 Ford Explorer at about 9 a.m. that day, a Saturday morning, and then fleeing the scene.

The woman was Julia Sutton, 56, of Weehawken. She was married and had four children, according to her obituary.

The fatal car accident occurred at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, on Rt. 35 south near Bay Boulevard in Brick Township. Sutton was struck and killed while she was in the shoulder of Rt. 35, said Ocean County Prosecutor Brad Billhimer.

It is not clear what she was doing in the shoulder of the busy highway.

She was taken to Ocean University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

The car fled the scene, police said. Brick Police determined it was a 1999 Ford Explorer registered to Carey. He was arrested the next day, Sunday, at his parents' home in South Amboy, and charged with knowingly leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death of another. He was also charged with failing to report an accident, reckless driving, careless driving and failure to maintain lane of travel.

Sutton was a fitness entrepreneur who co-founded Exhale, a wellbeing brand based in New York City, according to her biography on the Boutique Fitness Solutions website, which offers mentorship for people starting out. She was the chief growth officer for Vitruvia.

She completed the OPM program at Harvard Business School and was a member of the COO network, American College of Sports Medicine and HBS Club of New York. She was serving on the Manhattan College O’Malley School of Business Advisory Board at the time of her death.

Carey remains in the Ocean County Jail in Toms River pending a detention hearing.