The 44-year-old cop, who worked in Queens, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound around 7:20 p.m. on a residential block in Flushing, police and sources said.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry highlighted how the stressors of police work take a mental toll on many members of the force.
We lost another brother to the trauma of this work,' he wrote online after Purvis' death. 'To the men and women who wear the uniform, please know that there are always, always people willing to listen about the bad days.'
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