PETER MICHAEL PETROSINO

Officer Rank: Corrections Officer
Memorial Panel: 24-W: 19
Department: NYS Department of Correctional Services
End of Watch: October 24, 1991
Cause: PHYS
Age: 57
Years of Service: 22
Description: Officer Petrosino died of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis which he contracted while guarding four prisoners with AIDS and tuberculosis. Fifty health care workers also tested positive for the same strain after the attack
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