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Authorities: Delco officer dies after shooting himself

A Darby Borough police officer died late Monday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Ridley Park, authorities said. Darby Borough Mayor Helen Thomas confirmed that the officer had died but said she had no further information. Ridley Park police said a man shot himself in the 400 block of East Chester Pike but declined to elaborate.

A Darby Borough police officer has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Ridley Park, authorities said Monday.

Darby Borough Mayor Helen Thomas confirmed that the officer had died but said she had no further information. Ridley Park police said a man shot himself in the 400 block of East Chester Pike but declined to elaborate.

It was the third self-inflicted death of an officer in the region in recent weeks. In what was ruled a suicide, a Radnor Township police officer fatally shot himself Sept. 9 in the township building's parking lot. Two weeks earlier, a Lower Providence officer shot himself outside the township's municipal complex in Eagleville. - Robert Moran