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Deputy Sheriff

Daniel James Trujillo

Denver Sheriff's Department — Denver, CO

Veteran → Illness

End of Watch May 26, 2021

Age 33

Tour of Duty 7 yrs

The Vigil Panel 175 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 6

Incident

Deputy Sheriff Duke Trujillo died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty at the Downtown Detention Center.

Deputy Trujillo had served with the Denver Sheriff's Department for seven years.

Beginning in early 2020, thousands of law enforcement officers and other first responders throughout the country began to contract COVID-19 during the worldwide pandemic. Due to the nature of their job, law enforcement officers were required to work and interact with the community even as the majority of the country was self-quarantined. As a result, hundreds of officers died from COVID-related illnesses and other complications.

Visit ODMP's COVID-19 memorial listing every officer who has died as a result of a confirmed or presumed exposure.

COVID-19 and Law Enforcement

Deputy Sheriff Daniel James Trujillo died on May 26, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 33.

He is one of 884 officers honored here, and one of 2 at Denver Sheriff's Department.

Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.

Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.

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Tributes

The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Deputy Sheriff Trujillo gave the Denver Sheriff's Department 7 years.
Thank you for your service to the Denver community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Sheriff Trujillo.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Denver Sheriff's Department

Type Sheriff's Office

Location Denver, CO

Platform Identity dso.denver.co.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch May 26, 2021

Tour of Duty 7 yrs

Age 33

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Military Service

Daniel James Trujillo served in the U.S. Marine Corps (2008â2009) before joining law enforcement.

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Deputy Sheriff Daniel James Trujillo is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In CO, 11 of 360 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 3.1% of this state's fallen. That is 3.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Denver Sheriff's Department, 2 of 7 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 28.6% of this agency's fallen.

Denver Sheriff's Department

of 7 officers

28.6% Illness

CO — Statewide

of 360 officers

3.1% Illness

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Illness