United States – Page 7

7Jul

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Neighbors, Profiles, United States

Kenneth Harbin, correctional officer

Kenneth Harbin, an employee at the Price Daniel Unit in Snyder, has died of COVID-19, on July 6, 2020. Kenneth Harbin, 60, a correctional officer with more than 30 years of service, had been at a Lubbock hospital since June 28 after testing positive for COVID-19, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said in a news release. He was showing signs of improvement, but "took an unexpected rapid turn for the worse and died the morning of July 4," the release said. “Every death of one of our own is a tragic loss," said Bryan Collier, TDCJ executive director, in a statement. “The thoughts and prayers of his family in gray are with Officer Harbin’s loved ones and friends," he said. "He will not be forgotten." Daniel Unit senior...

6Jul

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Nick Cordero, actor

Nick Cordero ‑ the Tony award-nominated Broadway actor who starred in hit musicals including Waitress, A Bronx Tale and Bullets Over Broadway ‑ has died in Los Angeles from severe medical complications after contracting coronavirus. He was 41. Cordero died on July 5, 2020, at Cedars-Sinai hospital after spending more than 90 days in the hospital, The Guardian quoted his wife Amanda Kloots as saying. “God has another angel in heaven now,” she posted on Instagram. “Nick was such a bright light. He was everyone’s friend, loved to listen, help and especially talk. He was an incredible actor and musician. He loved his family and loved being a father and husband.” Cordero reportedly entered the emergency room on 30 March and had a succession of health setbacks including mini-strokes, blood c...

6Jul

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Randy Rumler, corrections officer

Randy Rumler, a two-decade veteran of the Michigan Department of Corrections, died on July 6, 2020, after battling with COVID-19, the MDOC's Honor Guard announced. According to the honor guard, Rumler worked his entire 24-year career at the Gus Harrison Correctional Facility in Adrian. In recent years he worked in food service at the facility. Inmates and loved ones connected to the Harrison facility have expressed concerns that the department introduced COVID-19 to the facility by using it as a "step-down" unit for people who had earlier tested positive for the virus but didn't currently have it, and weren't yet ready to return to their home facility. Rumler was one of 383 staffers to catch the virus, including 31 others at Gus Harrison, and he is the ...

5Jul

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Bhakti Charu Swami, spiritual leader

Bhakti Charu Swami ‑ a spiritual leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and a disciple of ISKCON's founder A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on 4 July 2020 in Florida, USA. He was born in 1945 into an aristocratic Bengali family and spent the rest of his early childhood in urban Kolkata. Leaving India in 1970 for his further education, he attended university in Germany. There, he searched out the ancient Vedic scriptures and instantly became driven to explore the depths of spirituality, discovering the richness of India’s spiritual heritage. Becoming engrossed in the depths of a book which he obtained called The Nectar of Devotion written by Srila Prabhupada, he realized that he had foun...

4Jul

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Scott Erskine, serial killer

Scott Thomas Erskine ‑ an American serial killer on California's death row, convicted in 2003 for the 1993 murder of two California boys – died from Covid-19 on July 3, 2020. He was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. Erskine grew up in southern California. When he was five years old, Erskine darted into traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach and was hit by a station wagon. He remained in a coma for 60 hours. Although physically he appeared recovered, he frequently complained to his mother about headaches, and he experienced "black-out" moments where he could not remember what he was last doing. At the age of 10, he started molesting his 6-year-old sister, forcing her to perform oral sex upon him. He soon began abusing her friends, threa...

4Jul

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Cynthia “Cindy” Solomon Tilley

Cynthia “Cindy” Solomon Tilley, a member of the North Myrtle Beach area community in the United States, died on July 3, 2020, due to complications from COVID-19 after battling the virus for more than two weeks. Tilley started feeling sick in June and went to the doctor where she tested positive for the virus. Her symptoms worsened as weeks passed. “She just wasn’t getting any better and she wound up going back to the hospital and had some IV fluids and some breathing treatments done. She wound up getting pneumonia in her left lung,” said her best friend and employer Amy Howie. Howie says she also suffered from a blood clot. Tilley was released from the hospital to recover from home. Howie was able to talk to Tilley in her final hours. Scared,...

Shaquana Miller Garrett, hostpital registrar

3Jul

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Shaquana Miller Garrett, hostpital registrar

Shaquana Miller Garrett ‑ a married mother to two little girls who worked as a registrar, taking patient information at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale – succumbed to Covid-19 on July 2, 2020. Miller was a diabetic, considered high-risk. Within days of her diagnosis, she needed to be hospitalized. She died on July 2nd. "She was 35 years old and she left a husband and a three-year-old and a four-year-old daughter here," Curtis said. But the Miller family barely had time to grieve because her 3-year-old daughter Kennedy is also now positive for COVID-19, fighting a fever. “My niece is three years old. She doesn’t have an underlying illness. She’s three,” Curtis said. Local10.com

3Jul

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Erica McAdoo, police officer

Erica McAdoo, a Senior Detention Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, died from complications of COVID-19 on July 3, 2020. LAPD officials have not confirmed thus far whether or not Officer McAdoo acquired the virus on the job. Another 287 LAPD employees are now quarantined at home after having been exposed to the novel coronavirus, according to the department’s tweet. On Facebook, Jerome Hall, of the Fort Worth Black Law Enforcement Officers Association, wrote that Erica McAddo’s mother, Donna Royston, reported that even though her daughter had been “cured” of the COVID-19 virus, yet “she remained ill for months,” with damage to heart and kidneys. WLA has not yet been able to confirm the above statement, but the matter of ser...

29Jun

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Neighbors, Philippines, Profiles, United States

John Eric Swing, community leader

John Eric Swing ‑ a leader in Los Angeles’ Historic Filipinotown who had worked with multiple community organizations serving the Filipino American community – died on June 28, 2020, of COVID-19 complications. He was 48. He was the executive director of Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), which is dedicated to Filipino American empowerment. Swing was appointed after a yearlong nationwide search. He was excited to work on the redevelopment of SIPA’s headquarters, which looked to include a small-business center, community space and a cultural center. The project was years in the making, and Swing had hoped to see it through. He had been a staff member at SIPA since 2015 and formed close relationships with coworkers. Eddy M. Gana Jr., who serves as SIPA’s mental health counselor,...

Couple married for 53 years dies while holding hands

27Jun

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Couple married for 53 years dies while holding hands

Together in life and together in death, a pair of high school sweethearts from Texas who had been married for 53 years died from coronavirus side-by-side, holding hands. Son Tim Tarpley says his parents, Curtis and Betty Tarpley, were both diagnosed with COVID-19 at the same time in June. His mother was admitted to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth shortly before his father, and she declined faster. “My mom called me and said, ‘Hey, I want to let you know I’m ready to go.’ And I yelled and screamed,” Tim Tarpley said. He then called his dad, who was on a different floor of the hospital. “He said, ‘How’s your mom?’ I said, ‘Well, she’s not good. She may not make it past tomorrow.’ It...