St. Petersburg police officer dies of COVID-19 complications

Officer Michael Weiskopf, 52, died Friday. He’d been with the department since 2003 and was assigned to the Crash Investigation Unit.

ST. PETERSBURG — A St. Petersburg police officer has died of COVID-19 complications, according to the city’s police department.

Officer Michael Weiskopf, 52, died Friday “from complications related to COVID-19,” a St. Petersburg Police Department news release said.

Weiskopf started with the department in 2003 and was assigned to the department’s Traffic Section Crash Investigation Unit. He “leaves behind a grieving wife and extended family,” the news release said.

Weiskopf had not received a COVID-19 vaccine, said police spokeswoman Yolanda Fernandez.

Though Weiskopf had resisted getting vaccinated, Fernandez said in an email, “His wife told us that just before he became ill, he was giving serious consideration to getting the vaccine.”

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He should have given serious consideration to getting the vaccine 6 months ago.