Police probe apparent suicide of NYPD sergeant
The NYPD is investigating the tragic death of one of its own.
An off-duty police sergeant shot himself in the head in an apparent suicide in his Bay Ridge home on Sunday afternoon, according to various media reports.
The sergeant, identified by several media outlets as James Fitzpatrick, 48, was discovered in the master bedroom of his Narrows Avenue home in Bay Ridge with a gunshot wound to his head shortly before 4 p.m. on Sunday.