High-ranking NYPD cop, 62, shoots himself dead in his car just one month before he was set to reach mandatory retirement age NYPD Deputy Chief Steven Silks, 62, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside his department-issued car in Queens on Wednesday He was weeks away from turning 63, the NYPD's mandatory retirement age The 39-year NYPD veteran was executive officer of Patrol Borough Queens North
By Megan Sheets For Dailymail.com
Published: 02:52 BST, 6 June 2019 | Updated: 04:19 BST, 6 June 2019
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A high-ranking NYPD officer fatally shot himself in the head just one month before he was set to retire.
Deputy Chief Steven Silks, the executive officer of Patrol Borough Queens North, was found dead inside his department-issued car on a quiet road near the 112th Precinct station on Wednesday, police sources say.
Silks was just weeks away from turning 63, at which point he would face mandatory retirement from
