Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon has died due to complications from Covid-19.
The pandemic is hitting law enforcement agencies especially hard.
In Metro Detroit alone this year, The Coronavirus has infected Detroit’s police chief, the sheriff of neighboring Macomb County, and took the lives of a Wayne County jail commander and two deputies.
Now Wayne County Sheriff and former Detroit chief of police, Benny Napoleon has died after a month of battling COVID-19.
He un-successfully ran for Mayor of Detroit in 2013, saying at the time he was devoted to safeguarding the city .
“I started out putting my life on the line for this community when I was 19 years old," said Napoleon. "I continue doing that today. I’ve seen the devastation firsthand.”
Napoleon had worked to bring protective equipment to his department since the pandemic erupted.
He was 65-years-old.