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Shock, Sadness Spread: Young Harrison Police Officer Dies Shock, Sadness Spread: Young Harrison Police Officer Dies
Shock, Sadness Spread: Young Harrison Police Officer Dies People get to know their police officers in small towns like Harrison, where shock and sadness continued to spread with the news that one of its finest had suddenly died. Officer Elizabeth Yasmin Delacruz succumbed at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood following a medical procedure elsewhere, said Maureen Curran Kleinman, the manager of communications and marketing for Valley Health System. A graduate of Lincoln High School in Jersey City, and a graduate student in criminal justice at John Jay College in Manhattan, Delacruz served in the U.S. Marine Corps, She was appointed to her depar…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Somerset County Sheriff's Officer Dies Of Heart Attack On Duty, 50 Somerset County Sheriff's Officer Dies Of Heart Attack On Duty, 50
Somerset County Sheriff's Officer Dies Of Heart Attack On Duty, 50 A Somerset County Sheriff's Officer with nearly two decades of experience died on duty of a heart attack Sunday morning, according to a recent news report. Ahmed Mackey, 50, was preparing to go out on a detail when he suffered the medical episode in the county municipal garage just before noon, MyCentralJersey.com reports. Nearby officers performed CPR on Mackey after he "fell ill," Sheriff Darrin Russo said. Mackey, of Piscataway, was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, where he died. Mackey was remembered in a post by the Somerset County Officers Association as "…

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by Cecilia Levine