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Jacobs, former AP biz reporter, dies at 37

This undated photo shows Stevenson Jacobs, a former Associated Press journalist. Jacobs, who covered political turmoil in Haiti and breaking news throughout the Caribbean before joining the news cooperatives business desk, has died. He was 37. Jacobs, who was a partner and head of business development at the investment fund ShearLink Capital, died from an apparent heart attack Monday, June 8, 2015, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, according to his wife, Atzin Gaytan. (Atzin Gaytan via AP)

Stevenson Jacobs, a former Associated Press business reporter, died Monday from a heart attack. He was 37.

An AP story states, “Jacobs, who was a partner and head of business development at the investment fund ShearLink Capital, died from an apparent heart attack Monday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, according to his wife, Atzin Gaytan. He had started to feel ill the night before at their weekend home in New Milford, Connecticut, but had no known underlying health condition, she said.

“The couple lived in New York. Jacobs moved to the city in October 2007 from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he had been the resident AP correspondent during an uneasy period following the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and through the election of President Rene Preval. It was a time when kidnappings surged in the country and U.N. peacekeepers frequently clashed with armed gangs in the capital.

“Previously, he had been an AP correspondent in Jamaica and a reporter and editor in San Juan, Puerto Rico, traveling throughout the region on assignment to cover elections and major hurricanes and other breaking news.

“‘He was kind-hearted, hard-working and people trusted him enough to tell him their most intimate stories,’ said Paisley Dodds, a former Caribbean news editor for AP.”