NYPD Lt. Michael Pigott Commits Suicide Over Iman Morales Taser Death (Pictures)

A New York Police Department lieutenant, Michael Pigott committed suicide Thursday, days after he ordered another officer to fire a taser gun at a naked, distraught man named Iman Morales, who then fell to his death, police said. Today was the wake for Iman Morales, and Lt. Pigott was so sorry to have given the orders to taser Morales, he took his own life. This is such a tragic story! You may see the video of Iman Morales below.

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Lt. Michael W. Pigott was found at a former airfield in Brooklyn, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said.

Pigott was facing charges after giving the order to taser the emotionally disturbed man that fell to his death.

Lt. Michael Pigott left the heart-wrenching suicide note, along with pictures of his wife and children, in a locker room at ESU headquarters in Brooklyn. Pigott’s death came on his 46th birthday.

“He said he didn’t want his kids to see him cuffed up and jailed,” one source said. “It breaks your heart.”

The note also asked authorities not to blame the officer who fired the Taser. “Pigott – a real cop’s cop – wrote that it was his judgment to use the Taser,” a police source said. “He said it was his fault.”

Pigott’s body was found at Floyd Bennett Field, where the unit is located and where training was held Monday. On Wednesday, he had apologized to Iman Morales’ family about what happened, saying he was “truly sorry.”

In the incident last week, witnesses and neighbors said Iman Morales had become distraught and threatened to kill himself. His mother called 911. But when police arrived, he climbed out of the window naked on his third-floor apartment to the fire escape.

Morales tried to get into an apartment on the floor above, and then climbed down until he reached a ledge over a shuttered storefront, where he started jabbing at officers with an 8-foot fluorescent light.

The lieutenant ordered Officer Nicholas Marchesona to fire the Taser. The 50,000-volt shock immobilized the 35-year-old Morales, who then toppled from his perch. He plunged headfirst to the ground and suffered fatal injuries.

Officers had radioed for an inflatable bag as the incident unfolded, but it had not yet arrived at the scene when Morales fell.

Morales’s mother was standing just a few yards away during the incident, and watched as her son Iman was tasered and fell to his death. The mother had called police because her son had a chemical imbalance and she believed he was suffering from a bad reaction to medication.

“The mother was screaming, ‘He’s gonna fall, he’s gonna fall!’ And they said ‘Ma’am step back.’ They wouldn’t allow the mother to talk to him,” witness Charlene Gayle-Gordon told WCBS.

The officers have been taken off the street and reassigned, but Morales’ loved ones say police took much more away from them.

“My brother, I’ll never get him back. Nothing can replace my brother,” Danny Morales said.

What a tragic story for all involved. It was bad enough that Iman Morales was tasered and fell to his death, but for Lt. Michael Pigott to feel so responsible for the orders he gave… to take his own life is just so sad.

Iman Morales video:

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