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5-year-old COVID-19 victim Skylar Herbert honored in naming ceremony at DPD headquarters
By Charlie Langton and David Komer online producer
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The Detroit Public Safety Headquarter dedicated the Police Board of Commissioners room, the Skylar Herbert room.
Detroit police HQ room renamed after youngest COVID-19 victim
The Detroit Public Safety Headquarter dedicated the Police Board of Commissioners room, the Skylar Herbert room.
She was diagnosed in March 2020 with Covid and then developed a rare form of meningitis and swelling of the brain - which would cause her death a month later. She was the daughter of two first responders. I am just really grateful that you all did this for my baby. We are very humbled by this, said LaVondria Herbert, her mother.
5-year-old girl who died from COVID honored at Detroit Public Safety Headquarters
Skylar Herbert was Michigan’s first child to die from complications from coronavirus
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Both of her parents are first responders in Detroit.
April 20, 2020:
The Detroit Police and Fire departments came together Wednesday to do something to keep Skylar’s memory alive for years to come.
At the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters on 3rd Avenue, people gathered to honor the life of a young girl whose death reminded the country to take coronavirus seriously.
Inside of the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters is the Michigan Room. The space, where all of the public events are held, has been renamed the Skylar Room.