From NYTimes obits "Those We've Lost" to Coronavirus,  by Aaron Randle, April 16

When playing his favorite game as a youngster, cops and robbers, Cedric Dixon always insisted on being the one wearing the badge.

“He had to be a cop,” Monique Dixon, his youngest sister, said. “That was always his goal.”

Mr. Dixon died on March 28 while wearing the badge of a detective with the New York City Police Department. He was 48.

The cause was complications of the new coronavirus, Ms. Dixon said. His death, at North Central Bronx hospital, is believed to be the first of a sworn N.Y.P.D. officer caused by the virus.

Detective Dixon had served in the police department for 23 years, working primarily in the Bronx. Promoted to detective just a year ago, he was assigned to the 32nd precinct, covering Harlem.

His colleagues described him as such an adroit interrogator that it was not uncommon to find him shaking hands with a suspect after extracting a confession. “He was, simply, above par,” a spokesman for the Detectives Endowment Association said.

Detective Dixon was born on Aug. 10, 1971, and raised in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx by his mother, Ceceletha Dixon, a nurse from Jamaica, alongside five sisters and a brother. As an adult he was described as both towering — at 6 feet 8 inches tall — and tender [....]