NYPD cop kills himself in fourth officer suicide this month

https://nypost.com/2019/06/27/nypd-cop-kills-himself-in-fourth-officer-suicide-this-month/

An off-duty NYPD cop died in an apparent suicide at his Long Island home — the fourth city cop to take his own life this month, law enforcement sources told The Post on Thursday.

The Bronx cop, identified by sources as 53-year-old Kevin Preiss, was found dead at his home in Hicksville in Nassau County with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head around 9:50 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

Preiss, who was married with children, was pronounced dead at the scene, sources said.

He was just three days away from his 25th anniversary on the job, sources said.

The death marks the fourth NYPD suicide in June and the sixth department suicide so far this year.

On June 14, Officer Mike Caddy, 29, was found inside a vehicle on Wilcox Street behind the 121st Precinct station house with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Caddy, a domestic violence officer, had seven years on the job.

On June 6, veteran homicide Detective Joe Calabrese, 58, was found in Brooklyn’s Plumb Beach, also the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

The day before, Steven Silks, the revered deputy chief of Queens North, shot himself in the head in an unmarked patrol car. He was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital but could not be saved.

The NYPD offers mental health services with the Employee Assistance Unit and the Chaplains Unit and also encourages the use of Police Officers Providing Peer Assistance, which is external to the department.