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Burbank Police sergeant commits suicide on street corner
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The Burbank Leader is reporting that Sergeant Neil Thomas Gunn Sr., a 22-year veteran of the Burbank Police Department, shot and killed himself on a residential street corner Thursday morning. Police responded to the corner of North Sunset Canyon Drive and East Harvard Road at approximately 11:40 a.m., where Gunn was pronounced dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Gunn was one of 12 current and former Burbank police officers named in a recent FBI probe of possible civil rights violations. On September 14, the U.S. attorney’s office subpoenaed personnel records of Gunn, along with Omar Rodriguez, Jose Cruz Duran, Christian Dereck Canales, Jon Murphy Jr., Mike George Reyes, Steve Sarkis Karagiosian, Armen Dermenjian, William Hampton "Bill" Taylor, Nick Wayne Nichols, Tommy Perez and Edgar Manuel Penaranda. The subpoena specified documents related to “use of force, defensive tactics, Tasers, pepper spray, or the rules and ramifications pertaining to the use of excessive force or a violation of civil/constitutional rights.” Three of the officers, Karagiosian, Rodriguez and Taylor, had previously filed lawsuits against the Burbank Police Department, alleging discrimination and retaliation.
Burbank Police Lieutenant John Dilibert issued a statement Thursday saying that the death of Sergeant Gunn is “a devastating tragedy,” and that “[t]he members of the Police Department and all our city employees share in the grief with his family during this difficult time.”
The investigation into Gunn’s suicide will be handled by the Glendale Police Department.
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