NYPD chief dies by suicide month before mandatory retirement
By: Rocco Parascandola, Kerry Burke, & John Annese, New York Daily News
NEW YORK — A high-ranking NYPD officer fatally shot himself in the head in a car in Queens Wednesday, just one month before he would have turned 63 and faced mandatory retirement from the department, police sources said.
Deputy Chief Steven Silks, the executive officer of Patrol Borough Queens North, parked his department-issued car not far from the 112th Precinct stationhouse, along a lonely stretch of road in the shadow of Forest Hills Stadium on Burns St. near 69th Ave., and shot himself, according to multiple police sources.
