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Ocean County Sheriff's Dept. Patch
Resided: NJ, USA
Born: Unk  
Fallen: Feb. 22, 2022
Race/Sex: Caucasian Male / 41 yrs. of age
Agency
Dept: Ocean County Sheriff's Office - NJ
120 Hooper Ave  
Toms River, NJ   08753   USA
(732)929-2044
County: Ocean
Dept. Type: County/Police
Hero's Rank: Sergeant
Sworn Date: Unk
FBI Class: Death - Biological
Weapon Class: COVID-19
Agency URL: Click Here
Badge: 147
On The Job: 14 years
Bio: Sergeant Horton was a United States Marine Corps veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A Marine Corps veteran, Horton joined the Sheriff’s Department in 2007 and graduated from the Ocean County Police Academy in Lakewood the following year.

Horton was one of five sheriff's officers who saved the life of judicial secretary Bonnie Muir Milligan when she collapsed at work on Oct. 16, 2015. Milligan was blue, her heart had stopped and she wasn’t breathing. Horton used the defibrillator to revive her, according to a Press story.

Survived by:
Wife
and four children

Fatal Incident Summary
Offender: No Info
Location: NJ   USA   Thu. Dec. 30, 2021
Summary: Sergeant Matthew Horton died as a result of contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty.

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COVID-19, a flu-like virus, originated in Wuhan, China. Worth a mention, the Chinese Government had a biological research facility in that very province. At this point, it was widely held that COVID-19 was a bat-coronavirus and the first case was discovered in Wuhan in Oct. 2019.

On Dec. 31, 2019, Chinese authorities alerted the World Health Organization of pneumonia cases in Wuhan City, Hubei province, China, with an unknown cause. Jan 7, 2020 Chinese authorities identify a new type of coronavirus (called novel coronavirus or nCoV).

Despite deaths and an entire Chinese Province(Hubei) quarantined by the Chinese Government, the World Health Organization(WHO) simply declares a global public-health emergency. Despite this serious understatement, on January 31st, President Trump bans foreign nationals from entering the US if they were in China within the prior two weeks. Despite a large public outcry of racism, this move likely saved 1000's of American lives, it would later be deemed.

After a full blown global infection, and an entire country being declared on 'Lockdown'(Italy), on March 11th, WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic. This same day, President Trump bans all travel from 26 European countries. On Mar. 13th, a US national emergency is declared over the novel coronavirus outbreak.

On Mar. 23rd, New York City confirms 21,000 cases, making it the biggest epicenter of the outbreak in the US. On Mar. 31, more than 1/3 of humanity is under some form of lockdown. On Apr. 2nd, the world passes one million COVID-19 infections.

On April 7th, roughly 95% of all Americans are under lockdown, as 42 states issue stay-at-home orders. The entire American economy has ground to a halt. Congress passed laws awarding trillions in grants, loans and other types of assistance to the American working population and businesses.

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