Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced Friday that the city’s new transit center will be named after Jason Hargrove, a city bus driver who died of COVID-19 in 2020.
“During the construction of this terminal, I thought we had to do anything to Jason Hargrove, to the bravery of all the men and women in those very damaging and murderous days,” Duggan said of the city’s workers, such as police, firefighters and transit workers.
The transit center is the former dairy barn of the State Exhibition Center. It will open in May.
Hargrove, 50, posted a video on Facebook on March 21, 2020, showing an unmasked passenger coughing. In the video, Hargrove suggested the audience be more respectful and considerate of bus drivers.
“In order for us to get through this and get through this, everyone needs to take it seriously. There are other people who are dying here because of this,” Hargrove said in the video.
He died a few days later, leaving behind his wife, Desha Hargrove, and six children.
The first two cases of COVID were diagnosed in Michigan on March 10, 2020. The first coronavirus deaths in the state were recorded on March 18 of that year, according to Michigan fitness officials. The World Health Organization reports that more than 7 million deaths have been reported. COVID-19, 1. 2 million in the United States.
A total of 44,728 people have died from COVID in Michigan as of March 12, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Desha Hargrove attended Friday’s occasion and thanked Duggan, city council members and other city employees.
“My center is thrilled,” Hargrove said. I’m grateful. “
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by Ken Coleman, Michigan Preview March 15, 2024
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced Friday that the city’s new transit center will be named after Jason Hargrove, a city bus driver who died of COVID-19 in 2020.
“During the construction of this terminal, I thought we had to do anything to Jason Hargrove, to the bravery of all the men and women in those very damaging and murderous days,” Duggan said of the city’s workers, such as police, firefighters and transit workers.
The transit center is the former dairy barn of the State Exhibition Center. It will open in May.
Hargrove, 50, posted a video on Facebook on March 21, 2020, showing an unmasked passenger coughing. In the video, Hargrove suggested the audience be more respectful and considerate of bus drivers.
“In order for us to get through this and get through this, everyone needs to take it seriously. There are other people who are dying here because of this,” Hargrove said in the video.
He died a few days later, leaving behind his wife, Desha Hargrove, and six children.
The first two cases of COVID were diagnosed in Michigan on March 10, 2020. The first coronavirus deaths in the state were recorded on March 18 of that year, according to Michigan fitness officials. The World Health Organization reports that more than 7 million deaths have been reported. COVID-19, 1. 2 million in the United States.
A total of 44,728 people have died from COVID in Michigan as of March 12, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Desha Hargrove attended Friday’s occasion and thanked Duggan, city council members and other city employees.
“My center is thrilled,” Hargrove said. I’m grateful. “
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