Miami cop called mom to say he didn’t feel well. When she got to his home, he was dead.
A young Miami police officer who injured his foot chasing a suspect two weeks ago died Thursday evening after calling his mother and telling her he took medication and didn’t feel well.
His mother rushed to his home, but didn’t get there in time.
“They had to break the door down. They took him to Jackson North [hospital],” Miami Fraternal Order of Police President Tommy Reyes said. “By the time she got there he was unconscious.”
Aubrey Johnson, 28, was a four-year veteran who worked in the Little Haiti/Model City neighborhoods. Working for Miami police was a family tradition. Johnson’s father is a retired executive assistant to a former Miami police chief, and his mother worked as a dispatcher, Reyes said.
Johnson was transported to Jackson North Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. It was not immediately clear if the medication played a role in his death.
The death of Johnson, a coach and mentor in Miami’s Police Athletic League, hit the local law enforcement community particularly hard. Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina said in a tweet that he was “heart broken.”
And Delrish Moss, a former Miami police major and now a captain with the Florida International University police department, expressed “sadness” and “disbelief.”
“Sleep well A.J.,” Moss said in a Tweet. “We will miss you.”
This story was originally published October 2, 2020 at 6:00 AM.
