After the Pulse nightclub shooing, a gay police officer in Ft. Lauderdale would park near LGBTQ venues show people that “they were protected.” He passed away suddenly from COVID-19 at age 39 with no underlying health conditions. Related: Gay man is Winter Party’s first known coronavirus death Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Shannon Bennett got a headache and a fever, the first signs that he was getting sick, according to his fiance Jonathan Frey. “All he really had at first was just a fever,” Frey