St. Augustine High School resource deputy dies after battling COVID-19

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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office lawman who had been sick with COVID-19 has died.

Deputy Jody Hull, a four-year subordinate of the Sheriff’s Office, had astir precocious served arsenic the Youth Resource Deputy astatine St. Augustine High School, the Sheriff’s Office said successful a Facebook station announcing his passing.

The station did not accidental however Hull died, but an interior email obtained by News4Jax indicated Hull had been battling COVID-19 for much than 2 weeks and had been connected a ventilator for respective days.

Before joining the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, Hull worked astatine the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office for 4 years.

“Deputy Hull positively impacted the lives of truthful galore St. Augustine High School students arsenic a Youth Resource Deputy. He was passionately dedicated to making a quality successful the lives of the younker astir him,” Sheriff Robert Hardwick said successful a statement. “Deputy Hull was a valued subordinate of our St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office household and volition beryllium greatly missed.”