Living with Philip and his parents and dating someone else.
Couldn't she have had the decency to move out?
After the demise of her late cuckolded boyfriend,is she still living at the same address?
R.I.P. Philip

Nothing like a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

 You can only feel when you are alive. Suicide makes you feel nothing, not even good.

Is she dating yet? Did the reporter get her phone number?

 I hate how people drop "Facebook" as a buzz word.  Like all of a sudden Zuckerberg invented adultery & suicide? 

relax fanboy, the means of communication is always mentioned in these types of stories. 

Yes, clearly there would never be a goofy moral panic about the internet.

This is a tragedy but it is a relief that this poor soul was not one of those possessive selfish bastards who kill their girlfriends so that no one else can have them.
 

Killing yourself is senseless; killing yourself over a girlfriend/boyfriend is that much more so.  As hackey as it is to say "time heals all wounds," it's true.  In a few years time, everyone becomes "whatshis/whatsher name."

 "followed by his unidentified girlfriend, went back to his squad car on 38th Street and retrieved his 9mm."

That kind of threw me, because why would he leave his gun in the car? But in fact, according to the linked articles, he didn't "retrieve" his gun after returning to the RMP. He had it with him through the whole visit, but drew it after returning to the car.

Fixed. I got that detail–which on reflection was odd–from the Post, which has since updated their copy. 

 If he really loved her he wouldn't have blamed her for making him kill himself. 

where does it say he blamed her?  he may have just realized she didnt love him anymore and couldnt accept it but didnt blame her.  whatever i guess i understand what youre saying 

True the article doesn't explicitly say that.  

But, I don't know why else he would do that unless he was saying it was her fault that he was killing himself.   

Whoops, there it is - sorry.

 Imma just put it out there that if you're feeling like you want to kill yourself, talk. Talk until the feeling passes, because it will pass in time. I'll never promise that things will get better, but I can promise you that suicide solves absolutely nothing.

Another thing - don't be afraid of talking to someone who you feel may be contemplating suicide because here's the thing - you can't say the wrong thing. They're not even listening to you but keep talking anyway because you're buying time and THAT'S what they need. Don't be afraid of the words "Do you want to kill yourself" because at the end of the day, those might be the sweetest words someone can hear. Asking that will not push them into action, but it may very well start the conversation that will save their life.

Be good to yourselves and be good to each other.

 "suicide solves absolutely nothing"
not true. suicide ends the pain, permanently.

but it causes life long pain and sadness for those left behind- parents, siblings, friends, etc.