NYPD Officer Shoots Himself at Home—Eighth NYC Officer to Commit Suicide This Year

An NYPD officer in a file photograph. Mary Altaffer/AP

A New York Police Department officer shot himself in his head inside his house early Aug. 13, the eighth New York cop to commit suicide this year.

Law enforcement sources told the New York Daily News that the officer, who worked for the department for seven years, left a suicide note.