NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A school safety agent who worked with Brooklyn's school children for over 30 years died from the coronavirus this weekend, the NYPD said.
"I'm sorry to inform you of the passing of another member of our NYPD family to COVID," Commissioner Dermot Shea wrote on Twitter. "School Safety Agent Doris Kirkland, who dedicated more than three decades to the students of Brooklyn."
Kirkland, who worked for the 84 Precinct School Safety Unit, died Friday night after battling COVID-19 for over a month and a half, according to NYPD officials. She was 56.
"She worked at my school. Was the sweetest person," Annie Pink, a special education teacher at Brooklyn High School of the Arts, wrote in a 52nd Precinct Facebook post about Kirkland.
"Always had great conversations with her. She will be missed," Pink wrote.
Commissioner Shea said Saturday that 5,739 members of the NYPD have tested positive for coronavirus and that the 43 members have died from coronavirus complications.
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