BREAKING NEWS: Tragedy Strikes as NYPD Sergeant Fatally Sh**ts Himself Inside Car on Queens Street.giang

A NYPD sergeant has tragically died after fatally shooting himself inside a vehicle.

The 44-year-old officer was found with gunshot wounds to his head on Monday evening, inside his car in Queens where he was stationed, sources told the New York Post. His injuries were confirmed as self-inflicted after he was discovered at around 7:20 p.m. His vehicle had been parked up on a residential block.

So far the NYPD has not released any further information about the identity of the officer or the nature of his death. However, it comes just a matter of months after NYPD officer Gregory J. Purvis took his own life in an apparent suicide. Purvis, 30, who was stationed in the 30th precinct in Harlem, was found unresponsive when his patrol partner came to his apartment on August 20, according to to New York Post. Ambulance teams who later rushed to the scene pronounced him dead a short while later. A GoFundMe page that was later set up for him raised over $17,000.

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Folllowing Purvis’s death, deputy commissioner of operations Kaz Daughtry said it was important to recognize the stress laid upon serving police officers. He wrote on Facebook: “This job takes a toll on you. You call the police for the worst moments of your life. Our officers respond to those calls and help you in those terrible moments. But then, when that moment is over for you, our officers go to the next call for help, the next victim having the next traumatizing moment, and then the next, and the next; and then they go home and try to have a normal life, managing all the trauma they’ve been exposed to, and wake up to do it again.

“We lost another brother to the trauma of this work. To the men and women who wear the uniform, please know that there are always, always people willing to listen about the bad days, about the days that hit too close to home. We all experience periods of darkness, but your brothers and sisters and the mental health professionals in this department can be and will be the rays of light that will get you through the darkest night. Greg, watch over your brothers and sisters and give them the strength they need to ask for help.”