LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles County deputy public defender died this week a few days after testing positive for COVID-19.
“Any death is tragic, but this one hits close to home,” according to a statement from the Association of Deputy District Attorneys. “We are heartbroken to learn of the first death of a justice system employee related to COVID-19, a day that we feared would happen, but it doesn’t make that reality any less painful.”
The attorney’s name was not released. In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, county Public Defender Ricardo Garcia said the attorney died Wednesday.
“The loss of this deputy public defender is a tragedy, and our hearts reach out to family, friends, and the entire public defender’s office who lost a cherished colleague and friend,” Garcia said.
The deputy public defender had been self-isolating at home since May 16 and tested positive for COVID-19 three days later, officials said.
“Two co-workers who worked with the individual were immediately notified and quarantined upon receipt of the positive test,” said Garcia, adding that the office where the person worked was closed and cleaned.
Eight other employees of the L.A. County public defender’s office have tested positive for COVID-19, an office spokeswoman said.
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Crossroads says
People still need to live there lives [removed] life don’t stop because of a virus [removed]
Random Stranger says
Oh my God! The irony in that statement.
Cassandra Cursed says
This is turning into a sad story, nationwide, reminding me of the AIDS years, when every day you’d read the names of creative artistic people who died. Now SARS-Covid-2 is going to spread, because Americans do not have the discipline to live by public health protocols instead calling them tyranny as if these flabby patriots could make it through five seconds of real tyranny. We all need to learn to face reality, we are in a pandemic from a killer virus, and stop the fr—-ing partying.