Richard Catapano, a 31-year-old NYPD officer, tragically died on August 2, 2020, in his Queens, NY apartment. The incident occurred around 1:50 a.m. when Catapano, who was off-duty at the time, fatally shot himself in the head. First responders found him critically wounded in the hallway outside his apartment on 23rd Street near 31st Avenue in Astoria. Despite being rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, he succumbed to his injuries shortly after. The NYPD is treating the incident as a suicide, and there
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