A tragic accident that left a man dead after being tasered by NYPD has seen another victim. Lieutenant Michael Pigott, who gave the order to taser the man who was standing on a window ledge a few stories up and uncooporative, committed suicide after being unable to deal with the incident.

The lieutenant, who had been stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty in another unit after the Taser incident, killed himself with a single shot to the head from a 9-millimeter Glock handgun taken from another officer’s locker at Floyd Bennett Field, a former airfield in Brooklyn where several police divisions are located, officials said.

The lieutenant’s body and a suicide note, alongside pictures of his children, were found about 6 a.m. The text of the note was not disclosed, but a law enforcement official said the lieutenant may have believed that he might face charges in an inquiry and did not want to bring disgrace upon his family.

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