NYPD Officer Found in Critical Condition After Suspected Suicide Attempt
This isn't the first incident of this kind this year in New York City: the Daily News reported that last week, a retired officer killed herself and her partner in a murder-suicide and in January, another young cop committed suicide.
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In tragic news out of New York, an officer with the New York Police Department allegedly shot himself in the head in the locker room of his Bronx station house on Tuesday in an suspected suicide attempt, according to police sources. The officer was transported to the hospital in critical condition, Thomas Tracy reports for New York Daily News. The young man had been with the department two years and worked the 12 a.m. to 8 a.m. shift. He didn’t leave a note, but police said the scene and the placement of the wound indicated that it was self-inflicted.
This isn’t the first incident of this kind this year in New York City: the Daily News reported that last week, a retired officer killed herself and her partner in a murder-suicide and in January, another young cop committed suicide.
The International Association of Chiefs of Police provides a toolkit for departments from the National Consortium on Preventing Law Enforcement Suicide here. If you’re experiencing a suicidal crisis, you can call 988 in the U.S. to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
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