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Authorities found the wounded officer in his vehicle in the parking lot of a local church. He was transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition, where he is being kept on life support while organ donor recipients are identified and located.
Read More →Investigators are looking into the recent death of an officer with the Chicago Police Department, with early reports indicating that a self-inflicted gunshot wound was the cause of death. If that early information is confirmed, that would make six officers with the department to die by suicide since last summer.
Read More →Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said on Monday, "She was with a male individual whom she knew, they were coming home from an event together and he has been completely cooperative with police."
Read More →Police investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an off-duty Chicago officer who was found Saturday night now believe the 47-year-old female officer died by suicide.
Read More →According to WBAL Radio, Corporal Patrick "PJ" Mann died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound just before crashing his vehicle.
Read More →The officer's girlfriend—also a police officer—found 40-year-old Nicholas Mencaroni in his home and called 911. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Read More →A deputy with the Highlands County (FL) Sheriff's Office—44-year-old Sergeant Max Van D’Huynslage, who had served with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office since 2008—was discovered dead from an apparent self-inflicted injury on Saturday.
Read More →According to NBC News, 58-year-old Patrick Montella was in the process of being released when he lunged for his old service weapon—which had been collected during his arrest— and shot himself.
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Suicide kills more of our fellow officers than any other cause, and we can't help them if we ignore their pain.
Read More →More than a dozen local and state police officers, dispatchers and other members of public safety gathered in a first of its kind training in California, centered on how to deal with mental health and trauma.
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