A Bellevue Hospital cop’s body lay for two months in the morgue at the hospital he spent his career protecting — until a group of fellow officers claimed it yesterday.
Angel Brito, 49, (left) who had no family, died of natural causes in his East Village apartment on Nov. 4, and wound up at Bellevue, where he had worked for 14 years as a hospital officer.
For nearly two months, no one came to claim his remains, so friends and fellow officers decided to give him a final service.
“He didn’t have any family and we refused to let him go to potter’s field,” said fellow Bellevue cop Michael Gonzales.
A wake was held yesterday at the Ortiz Funeral Home on First Avenue near East 2nd Street after pals raised $1,900 for the service.
One of the people who helped organize the service was William Gomez, a childhood pal. He said he was shocked when a friend told him Brito was in the morgue, unclaimed.
“This poor man in the morgue and no one claims his body,” he said. “I thought of him and I saw one of my kids.”