Traffic agent, 33, is NYPD’s latest suspected coronavirus death
Brooklyn NY April 3 2020
An NYPD traffic agent from Brooklyn who helped her mom raise her four younger siblings became the sixth suspected coronavirus death in the department Wednesday.
Karisma Dargan, 33, joined the NYPD in 2017, and worked in its Brooklyn North tow yard. The NYPD is still awaiting her virus test results, department officials said.
“Karisma was my first-born,” said her mother, Annie Dargan. “She had two brothers and she had two sisters. Karisma helped me raise all of them.”
“Karisma would come home from school, help me take care of them,” she said. “Anything I needed, Karisma was there for me, and her brothers and sisters, and anybody else she could help.”
Dargan, who lived with her grandmother, was considering becoming a police officer, and got high grades on a recent transit officer’s exam, but enjoyed where she was working, her mother said.
One detective and four more civilian members of the NYPD have died since last Thursday.
As of Wednesday night, more than 1,200 cops and 150 civilian NYPD members tested positive for the virus. Nearly 6,200 officers — about 17 % of the force — called out sick Wednesday, police officials said.
