Two congressmen are calling for an investigation into the apparent suicide of a former Navy gunner on the grounds of a veterans' hospital in New York.
Peter Kaisen, of Islip, was found dead of a gunshot wound Sunday in a parking lot at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northport. He was 76.
His wife, Joan Kaisen, tells Newsday her husband suffered from severe back pain caused by an auto accident in the 1960s when he was a police officer.
U.S. Reps. Peter King, a Republican, and Steve Israel, a Democrat, sent a letter Thursday to the heads of the FBI and the Department of Veterans Affairs asking for a "transparent" investigation into the death.
Kaisen's wife says doctors recently told him they couldn't do more to alleviate the pain.
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