{"id":16353,"date":"2014-08-13T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lcpllutzlivetotell.org\/?p=16353"},"modified":"2019-08-18T16:21:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T20:21:30","slug":"johnny-rios-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/?p=16353","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Rios, 35"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New York Police Officer Johnny Rios was a seven-year veteran of the department.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Yonkers, NY \u2013 New York Police Officer Johnny Rios died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old officer\u2019s girlfriend was also home at the time, the\u00a0New York Daily News<\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n

Shortly before 3:30 a.m., a neighbor heard a woman yell \u201cNo!\u201d three times, just before a gunshot rang out, according to the paper.<\/p>\n

The woman then began to wail, and screamed \u201cNo!\u201d once again, the neighbor said.<\/p>\n

Officer Rios also left a note prior to committing suicide, sources told the New York Daily News.<\/p>\n

The seven-year veteran-of-the-force was assigned to the New York Police Department\u2019s (NYPD) 50th Precinct, where he worked alongside 53-year-old\u00a0Officer Kevin Preiss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Officer Preiss, who served the NYPD for nearly 25 years, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on June 26.<\/p>\n

Officer Rios had recently been working a temporary assignment at Yankee Stadium, according to the New York Daily News.<\/p>\n

His neighbor, Jesse Manuel, said that the young officer kept to himself, and that he often gave toys to kids in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Officer Rios and his girlfriend recently got engaged, and lived together with her two children, according to the\u00a0New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a very happy couple,\u201d another neighbor told the paper. \u201cThey were planning on getting married soon. [Officer Rios] was excited about it\u2026He showed us the ring before he proposed. That was about three weeks ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officer Rios was the eighth NYPD officer to die by suicide in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many people are going to end up dead before something changes?\u201d Sergeants Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins asked, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n

Mullins said that department leaders need to do more to help the officers who are out working the streets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they need to look at the big picture,\u2019\u2019 the union leader said. \u201cI think they need to take a look at PTSD. I think we need to look into the idea of annual therapy, basically extracting the trauma that builds up.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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HERO DOWN: NYPD OFFICER JOHNNY RIOS DIES OF SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND<\/a><\/h6>\n

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Add your loved one to the wall<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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New York Police Officer Johnny Rios was a seven-year veteran of the department. Yonkers, NY \u2013 New York Police Officer Johnny Rios died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home on Tuesday. The 35-year-old officer\u2019s girlfriend was also home at the time, the\u00a0New York Daily News\u00a0reported. Shortly before 3:30 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorial-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutzlivetotell.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}