LAPD Officer Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
A Los Angeles police officer was found shot to death in his Silver Lake apartment in what police and county coroner officials said Thursday appeared to be a suicide.
Officer Sean Leahy, a two-year veteran who was assigned to the Rampart-area station, suffered a single gunshot wound to the head and was found in his apartment in the 2800 block of Rowena Avenue, according to Bob Dambacher of the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. A .38-caliber revolver was found near his body.
The body was discovered about 11 a.m. Wednesday, officials said, when a police supervisor went to the apartment after the 29-year-old officer missed two days of work.
“He didn’t show up for work on Tuesday and then again on Wednesday,” Dambacher said. “So they sent a car by to see what was wrong.”
Police Department spokesman Cmdr. William Booth said, “We are confident it was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”
Colleagues said the officer had been despondent over the recent breakup of a relationship.
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