MASSAPEQUA, NY October 12 2019 — A Massapequa police lieutenant has been identified as the Nassau County police officer who took his own life Monday night. Kevin Black, president of the superior officer’s union, confirmed the suicide to Patch on Wednesday. The 27-year member of the department died around 6 p.m. Monday. Laura Curran, the county […]
Ottawa Canada Sept 30 2019 An Ottawa police officer shot and killed himself inside police headquarters on Elgin Street on Friday. Police have identified the officer as Det. Thomas Roberts, 35. The robbery investigator was found dead inside the unit’s office. Roberts was a former RCMP officer who joined OPS in 2016. His colleagues remember him […]
SAN FRANCISCO CA Sept 24 2019 A 52-year-old retired law enforcement officer who had been missing from his home since early Friday morning was found dead Saturday afternoon near Lake Merced, San Francisco police said. Foul play is not suspected in the death of James Kerrigan, who had last been seen leaving his San Francisco home […]
CHICAGO IL Sept 17 2019 A Chicago police officer died from suicide Monday night at the Bunker Hill Forest Preserve on the Northwest Side. Cook County Sheriff’s officers responded to the Bunker Hill Forest Preserve near Caldwell and Tonty avenues around 7 p.m. in connection to a death investigation, according to sheriff’s spokesman Matt Walberg. Officer […]
NASHUA, N.H. Sept 14 2019 The Nashua police chief said Thursday his department is struggling to deal with the death of a fellow officer who died by suicide. Capt. Jonathan Lehto’s death was announced Monday, and the Nashua Police Department revealed Thursday that Lehto had taken his own life while visiting family in Seattle. Chief […]
JONESVILLE, Va. September 11 2019 A commonwealth’s attorney has determined that a Big Stone Gap police officer’s death was a suicide and his cousin’s death a homicide after both were found dead inside a truck on Route 23 in March. In a report released Friday, Lee County Commonwealth’s Attorney H. Fuller Cridlin said Big Stone Gap […]
Staten Island NY Sept 5 2019 A retired NYPD transit sergeant shot and killed himself Monday on Staten Island, police sources told The Post. The 48-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, shot himself in the head while in his car in a transit parking lot on Arthur Kill Road near Richmond Avenue, […]
Staten Island NY Sept 5 2019 A retired NYPD transit sergeant shot and killed himself Monday on Staten Island, police sources told The Post. The 48-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, shot himself in the head while in his car in a transit parking lot on Arthur Kill Road near Richmond Avenue, […]
New York City NY Aug 5 2019 When an off-duty New York City police officer shot and killed himself in his home on Staten Island as reported by WABC last week, it was the department’s fifth suicide since June and the seventh this year — part of what law enforcement advocates are calling an increasingly disturbing […]
Philadelphia PA July 10 2019 Police in Philadelphia say that an officer and his estranged wife were found dead inside a home and that they are investigating it as a murder-suicide. Police Commissioner Richard Ross says couple’s 17-year-old daughter called police to check on her parents after she could not reach one of them. They […]