{"id":123637,"date":"2019-06-06T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=123637"},"modified":"2019-06-06T11:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T15:13:36","slug":"was-the-nypd-just-suicided-if-so-who-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=123637","title":{"rendered":"Was the NYPD Deputy Chief just suicided days before retirement?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>NYPD Chief Kills Himself Just Days Before Retirement<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Breaking 911<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Deputy Chief Steven Silks was pronounced dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Silks was off-duty and located near Burns Street and 69th Avenue in Queens.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d3023.875389917617!2d-73.85223748459482!3d40.72075957933091!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x89c25e23855d19f5%3A0x49b4c2ed99e8a1ed!2sBurns+St+%26+69th+Ave%2C+Queens%2C+NY+11375!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1559775282366!5m2!1sen!2sus\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The officer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-nypd-police-officer-shot-in-the-head-while-sitting-in-car\/\">was found sitting in a car suffering from a gunshot wound<\/a>\u00a0to the head. He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital by an NYPD car and was listed in critical condition \u2014 where he was later pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_129478\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129478\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129478\" src=\"https:\/\/44j8pi118ndi39vvs23rtoqu-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D8VdKwhV4AIO7r3-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/44j8pi118ndi39vvs23rtoqu-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D8VdKwhV4AIO7r3-1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/44j8pi118ndi39vvs23rtoqu-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D8VdKwhV4AIO7r3-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Deputy Chief Steven Silks was pronounced dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Highly credible sources tell Breaking911.com that Silks handed in his retirement papers to the NYPD last night. He was scheduled to retire at the end of July after 38 years on the job.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Deputy Chief Steven Silks of PBQN was honored and awarded tonight for his 39 years of dedicated service to the people of New York. Well deserved. Chief Silks exemplifies community policing and has worked to foster positive relationships. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/81tq3S25hA\">pic.twitter.com\/81tq3S25hA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NYPD Queens North (@NYPDQueensNorth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDQueensNorth\/status\/1121582363379630080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Silks was not married and had no children.<\/p>\n<p>He reportedly had pleaded with uppper brass for a promotion to two-star chief for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-update-nypd-chief-kills-himself-just-days-before-retirement\/\">https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-update-nypd-chief-kills-himself-just-days-before-retirement\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYPD Chief Kills Himself Just Days Before Retirement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}