{"id":22004,"date":"2025-10-30T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22004\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:18:07","slug":"federal-cbp-agent-dies-by-suicide-in-front-of-girlfriend-inside-nyc-apartment-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22004\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal CBP agent dies by suicide in front of girlfriend inside NYC apartment: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/tag\/us-customs-and-border-protection\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Customs and Border Protection<\/a> agent died by suicide in the Bronx early Wednesday when he turned a gun on himself in front of his girlfriend, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old agent suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head inside an apartment at Westchester Avenue and East 152nd Street in Melrose around 6:40 a.m., authorities and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s girlfriend \u2014 also a CBP agent \u2014 witnessed the moment her beau took his own life, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD at the scene of where a federal Customs and Border Protection agent took his own life in the Bronx on Oct. 29, 2025. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old agent shot himself in the head inside his apartment in front of his girlfriend Wednesday evening. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>NYPD investigators carrying evidence from the scene of the suicide. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD descended on the scene after receiving a 911 call for help, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The agent, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS workers.<\/p>\n<p>If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 888-NYC-WELL for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the five boroughs, you can dial 988 to reach the Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline or go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/suicidepreventionlifeline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SuicidePreventionLifeline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal Customs and Border Protection agent died by suicide in the Bronx early Wednesday when he turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,57,9,24,63,340,129,131,130,14665,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-22004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-suicide","14":"tag-the-bronx","15":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","16":"tag-the-bronx-news","17":"tag-us-customs-and-border-protection","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}