NYPD sergeant found dead after shooting himself in car on NYC street
A New York City police sergeant was found dead Monday night after apparently shooting himself in the head.
The unidentified 44-year-old officer who worked in Queens was found dead in his car of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a residential block in Flushing around 7:20 p.m. according to the New York Post.
Authorities have not yet released the officer’s name, pending family notification.
Monday’s death was just the latest suicide among New York police in recent years.
In 2019, four city police officers took their own lives in just three weeks.
An unidentified 44-year-old officer working in Queens was found dead in his car from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on a residential block in Flushing around 7:20 p.m.
According to the New York Post, the officer apparently shot himself in the head
Deputy Chief Steven Silks, 63, marked the first of four deaths when he was found dead in a police vehicle in Queens on June 5 – a month before his mandatory retirement.
The next day, police found the body of missing Detective Joseph Calabrese, 58, on a Brooklyn beach.
Police said they both also died from gunshot wounds to the head.
Then on June 14, police officer Michael Caddy, 29, shot himself in the head in a car parked on a Staten Island street, and on June 2, Kevin Preiss, 53, a veteran cop assigned to the Bronx, was found dead on his Nassau Street. County home after a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
A total of ten officers committed suicide in 2019.
Authorities have not yet released the officer’s name, pending notification of family
Monday’s death was just the latest suicide among New York police in recent years
The following year, second-degree Det. Paul Federico, 53, and a 39-year-old off-duty police officer were also found dead of apparent suicides.
And in 2022, Scott Cohn, 38, jumped from the Throgs Neck Bridge after experiencing emotional problems on the job.
“I know he wasn’t happy on patrol,” said a Brooklyn cop who knew him.
‘He was not happy with the treatment the police received and with the current situation. But that’s not really a reason to want to commit suicide. Anyone can leave the track.”
Last year, Officer Steven Hernandez was pronounced dead after jumping from the Lefrak City Apartments in Flushing, Queens, shortly before 12:30 p.m.
Following the death of Officer Gregory Purvis in an Upper Manhattan apartment in August, NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Operations Kaz Daughtry took to social media to highlight how the stressors of police work are taking a mental toll on members of the force. corps.
Following the death of Officer Gregory Purvis in an Upper Manhattan apartment in August, NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Operations Kaz Daughtry took to social media to highlight how the stressors of police work take a mental toll on members of the force.
“We have lost another brother to the trauma of this work,” he said.
“To the men and women who wear the uniform, please know that there are always those willing to listen to the bad days, to the days that hit too close to home.”