CHICAGO, IL - A Chicago police officer shot himself in the head Sunday night in the parking lot of a police station on the South Side. The death of Brandon Krueger , 37 has been ruled a suicide, the Chicago Sun-Times and others report.

Krueger died at the Chicago Police Department's 5th District station located at 727 E. 111th Street in the Pullman neighborhood. The Chicago Tribune reports the officer shot himself in his patrol car with his service weapon.

Krueger was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. With the Chicago Police Department, he was a member of a narcotics unit.