FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. — Deputies in Florida County are raising money to help support the family of one of their own who died Thursday from COVID-19.
Sunday update:
The Florida County Sheriff’s Office has established a GoFundMe account to support the family of a deputy who passed away in the line of duty from COVID-19 complications.
Officials set up the Flagler Sheriff’s Employee Assistance Trust to help manage the account and funds raised for Detention Deputy Paul Luciano’s family.
Deputies said Luciano is the first Detention Deputy Sheriff to die in the line of duty in the history of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.
Luciano had been hospitalized while battling COVID-19, which he likely contracted while serving in the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility, officials said.
Anyone looking to donate to the account can find more information here.
Original Report:
Deputies is Flagler County are morning the loss of one of their own who passed away from COVID-19.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said Detention Deputy Sheriff Paul Luciano succumbed to health complications from COVID-19 on Thursday.
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Officials with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said Luciano, 60, started his law enforcement career in 1996 with the Bunnell Police Department.
He later joined the Department of Corrections in Volusia County before joining the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office in 2019.
Luciano served as a detention deputy sheriff at the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility.
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Deputies said he is survived by his wife, Carrie Luciano, and their children.
“Deputy Luciano is a hero and this has devastated our team,” Staly said. “I’m asking the community to keep his family and the men and women of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office in their prayers as we mourn the loss of one of our own. Deputy Luciano will be greatly missed by his brothers and sister of the FCSO.”
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Staly said he will update the community as information becomes available. There is no information available on funeral arrangements yet.
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