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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville Beach Police Department sergeant who died from complications related to COVID-19 will be honored Friday with a celebration of life at the Church of Eleven22′s San Pablo campus.
The service is scheduled for 10 a.m.
The same day the Jacksonville Beach community gathers to mourn Sgt. Daniel Watts, the Lake City community will also lay to rest a first responder who died from COVID-19 complications: Fire Chief Randy Burnham.
It’s the second week in a row two local communities are holding ceremonies under these circumstances.
COVID-19 is now the leading cause of law enforcement “line of duty” deaths.
Watts, 49, was a decorated veteran member of the department.
Chief Gene Smith, with the Police Department, said Watts previously worked with the Atlantic Beach Police Department, where he served four years. He started with Jacksonville Beach police in 2002 as a patrol officer and became a detective two years later.
He transferred to the position of downtown CAPE officer in 2012, was promoted to corporal in 2013 and worked as a patrol until he moved to the rank of detective corporal in 2015, the Police Department said. He was promoted to sergeant and moved pack to patrol in April of this year.
Smith said Watts served on the SWAT team for over 10 years.
“Dan was a decorated, veteran member of this department,” Smith said in a prepared statement. “We are devastated.”
A photo shared by the department showed Watts’ son, Eli, paying his respects to his father at the police headquarters next to his father’s car.
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, 132 members of law enforcement are known to have died from COVID-19 complications.
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