Roll of Honor
Incident
Director Kyle Coleman died after contracting COVID-19 while coordinating the county's emergency response to the pandemic.
Director Coleman had served in law enforcement for 46 years. He had retired from the Bexar County Sheriff's Office before joining the Bexar County Fire Marshal's Office, where remained a sworn law enforcement officer and served as the county's director of the Office of Emergency Management.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Director N. Kyle Coleman died on July 14, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 69.
He is one of 884 officers honored here.
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.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and two stepsons.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Director Coleman gave the Bexar County Fire Marshal's Office 46 years.
Thank you for your service to the San Antonio community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Director Coleman.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Director N. Kyle Coleman is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In TX, 204 of 2,421 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 8.4% of this state's fallen. That is 0.7 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. N. Kyle Coleman's cause is highlighted.
How N. Kyle Coleman Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. N. Kyle Coleman is highlighted in Jul.