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Middlesex County Dad, Veteran Correction Officer, 44, Dies Of Coronavirus
A 19-year-veteran of the New Jersey Department of Corrections and father of three has died from complications due to the coronavirus, making him at least the second prison worker to die of the disease, state prison officials said.
Nelson Perdomo, 44, of Middlesex County, was admitted to Raritan Bay Medical Center in Old Bridge Township last month with a high fever and placed on a ventilator.
“He lost his battle with this terrible virus,” the New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association said in a Facebook post on Friday.
More than $21,000 was raised on a GoFundMe page for Perdomo's f…