Benny Napoleon, a Detroit-area sheriff who spent decades in Motor City law enforcement and whose police chief brother overcame COVID-19 earlier this year, succumbed to the illness.
He was 65. The Wayne County sheriff died Thursday night, a month after he was placed on a ventilator, at Henry Ford Hospital, local media reported.
Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon during an interview with Reuters at his campaign headquarters in Detroit, Mich., in 2013. (Reuters/Rebecca Cook) "Benny had so much life yet to live; our community has once again lost someone larger than life to this vicious pandemic," Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel tweeted late Thursday night. "My heart goes out to Benny’s family.