Steven Hernandez *COP

Gender : Male

Age : 28

Race : Latinx

Date : 01/10/2023

Location : LeFrak City Apartments

City : Elmhurst

County : Queens

State : New York

Agency : NYPD

Cause of Death : Unknown

Event : Suicide

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

Steven Hernandez, a suicidal NYPD cop in mental health crisis jumped from the roof of a Queens building on 01/10/2023 and was found just before 12:30 p.m. For undisclosed reasons, NYPD had previously put him on desk duty and confiscated his service weapons.Officer Hernandezhad previously posted many social media posts in November that raised alarms with a number of his friends such as the entry on 11/10/2022 asking “Please help me. Please love me. Please care for me. Please listen to me. PLEASE COMMUNICATE WITH ME. PLEASE SPEND TIME ON ME!” By all signs, he had been in various states of acute mental health crisis for months that would have required a higher and more urgent level of care than psychiatric office visits such as the one he had just returned from at the time of his death.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://nypost.com/2023/01/10/nypd-cop-jumps-to-death-in-queens-police/

https://www.insider.com/nypd-suicide-officers-on-restricted-duty-higher-risk-self-harm-2023-1