This is the only other NYPD Detective w/in the time frame that I can find that may fit the [187]

"Former veteran NYPD Detective Tom Nerney…

Nerney retired in 2002 from the department’s Major Case Squad. He later ran his own investigative firm."

"“He was just a great guy,” Austin said. “I just got an e-mail from him, and everything was fine. Then, the guy wakes up in the morning, he’s got chest pains, and then he’s gone."

https://nypost.com/2017/06/20/former-veteran-nypd-detective-dead-at-77/

ala Antonin Scalia [187]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-tv-station-scalia-died-of-a-heart-attack/2016/02/14/938e2170-d332-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html?utm_term=.0af00eebf1c8