Health & Fitness
Queens NYPD Volunteer Officer Dies Of Coronavirus Complications
NYPD Auxiliary Lieutenant Frederick King had spent 45 years volunteering for the division that patrols Queens public housing complexes.
LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — A longtime volunteer officer for the NYPD division that serves Queens public housing developments has died of complications related to COVID-19, police officials said.
NYPD Auxiliary Lieutenant Frederick King died Saturday, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced. He was 64.
King spent 45 years with the NYPD's Housing Police Service Area 9, which serves NYCHA complexes across the borough and has station houses at the Pomonok Houses in Flushing and Ravenswood Houses in Long Island City.
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"Our hearts are broken as we mourn the loss of one of our own," NYPD Housing PSA 9 tweeted on Monday night.
He started volunteering for the NYPD's auxiliary division in 1975, when he was 19, according to the police.
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