By Tina Moore
@TinaMoorereport
An off-duty NYPD detective committed suicide at his mother’s Queens home on Monday, law enforcement sources said.
Second-grade Detective Paul Federico, 53, hanged himself at the 79th Street house in Middle Village around 12:25 p.m., sources said.
Federico, who worked in the department’s liaison unit and had many years on the job, was pronounced dead at the scene.
“His wife was in front screaming,” said area resident Mario Kustera, 53. “She was saying, ‘Why did my husband do this?’”
Sources said Federico recently was placed on restricted duty and had his guns taken away from him — though it was not clear why.
Federico, whose suicide is the first in the department of 2020, did not leave behind a note, according to sources.
The cop had two adult children and a brother, Anthony — an officer with the Rockville Centre Police Department on Long Island, sources said.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/17/nypd-detective-commits-suicide-in-his-queens-home/