An NYPD officer tragically ended his life in what appears to be a suicide after officials informed him of an ongoing federal investigation. Found in his West Islip residence with a gunshot wound, the officer, according to officials, used one of his personal firearms not surrendered during his modified duty assignment, as per ABC7 New York.
The unnamed officer, a nine-year veteran of the force, had returned to the U.S. from Italy and was met by Homeland Security Investigations agents at Kennedy Airport, where he was apprised of the federal probe and consequently relinquished four registered guns but, federal charges had not been filed against him at the time, the focus of the federal investigation remains undisclosed, the circumstances here showing the stark and sometimes sudden interplay between personal crisis and the often-unyielding grind of judicial scrutiny.
In a related account by the New York Post, the officer has been identified as Salvatore A. Buscemi, and it was a relative who reportedly heard the fatal gunshot early yesterday morning, a trove of additional weapons were recovered from his home following the sad incident.
Suffolk County police have classified the death as part of a "non-criminal" investigation and have declined further comment, leaving the community with scant details about the sequence of events that led to this tragedy, and the NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment yesterday evening with questions still looming about the nature of the federal probe and the heavy toll such inquiries can exact even before they come to light.
