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Police recruit receives father’s badge number after coronavirus claimed his life

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Mark Hall Jr. is sworn in at New Orleans Police Department (NOPD Facebook)

May 21, 2020
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NEW ORLEANS – A New Orleans police recruit is honoring his father, also an officer, who died from the coronavirus, carrying on his legacy by wearing his same badge number at his academy graduation on Wednesday.

Mark Hall Jr. lost his father, veteran NOPD Officer Mark Hall Sr., just a day before his class was scheduled to graduate from the police academy, the department said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.

Hall Sr. served on the agency for more than 30 years, Fox News reported. Sadly, he passed away April 30, a month after he first contracted COVID-19.

Grieving the loss of his father, the younger Hall’s final exam was put on hold and he did not graduate with the rest on his class during a May 1 ceremony that was “held privately and in line with COVID-19 restrictions.”

Though “undeterred by the tragic loss,” Hall Jr. stayed the course and recently took and passed his final exam to graduate from the training academy on Wednesday, NOPD said in their Facebook post.

“Today, Superintendent Shaun Ferguson administered the oath of office to Hall Jr., who received something even more special – his father’s badge. Hall Jr.’s mother pinned her husband’s badge, #1786, on her son’s chest to continue the family legacy of service to the citizens and visitors of New Orleans,” the department said.

Hall Jr. will now begin the field training program with the rest of his classmates.

 


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