Nikeelan "Nick" Semmon died July 1. He was a senior corrections with the N.J. Department of Corrections.
TRENTON -- Hundreds of corrections officers from all over New Jersey lined a Trenton street Friday morning to show their support for an officer who died while on duty last week.
Nikeelan "Nick" Semmon died July 1 at an area hospital, shortly after collapsing at the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility in Chesterfield, where he was a senior corrections officer with the state Department of Corrections.
Officials said Semmon, 36, suffered an apparent medical attack.
Semmon lived in Delran, but was a Trenton native, his obituary said. He is survived by his wife Ebony Monique Semmon and young son, Gavin Quincy Semmon.
A graduate of Trenton Central High School, Semmon also served in the U.S. Navy for four years, and two years in the Army National Guard.
Numerous state corrections officers escorted Semmon's body to and from a service at Friendship Baptist Church on Perry Street in Trenton.
He was interred at Brigadier General William C. Doyle Memorial Cemetery in North Hanover, Burlington County.
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