UPDATE: Fusco family loses its third member to coronavirus Wednesday night after matriarch dies.

A second person from the same New Jersey family has died after being infected with the coronavirus, the family’s attorney confirmed Wednesday.

Carmine Fusco, a New York- and New Jersey-based horse racing trainer, died Wednesday morning, Roseann Paradiso Fodera, a cousin and the lawyer representing the Fusco family, confirmed to NJ Advance Media. His sister Rita-Fusco Jackson died last Friday and later tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the state’s second victim.

The deaths of Fusco and Fusco-Jackson are connected to the death of John Brennan, a horse trainer who lived in Little Ferry. Brennan was the first New Jersey resident to die after testing positive for COVID-19.

Fusco, 55, was one of six members of the same family hospitalized for coronavirus after they attended a family gathering. He died at St. Luke’s University Hospital-Bethlehem Campus, in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania. Four family members remain in critical condition.

Nineteen other family members, including spouses and children, have also been tested, according to Elizabeth Fusco, a sibling who is not hospitalized said Tuesday.

“This has been devastating for all of us,” Elizabeth Fusco, 42, of Freehold said Tuesday before her brother died. “Our hearts are broken over losing our sister, Rita. We just need help in saving our family members with life-saving medication.”

Fusco-Jackson, who died Friday, was one of 11 children, according to her sister. She was both a parishioner and a teacher in the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine confirmation program, the Freehold church said.

Rita Fusco-Jackson, 55, of Freehold, died on Friday, March 13, 2020, and then later tested positive for coronavirus.

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