Kilpatrick wrote the following statement:
âPRAYERS NEEDED AND REQUESTED FOR ME, Jim Kilpatrick, I am fighting COVID for the past week in AdventHealth (old Metroplex Hospital). Be strong, pray, back on PPP for couple days, pray I will get ok but I need every one you know to join together in church parks street city hall public building !!!!!!!! Lord listen to these prayers, keep Jim fighting, bring Jim home to his family, community, his fellow mankind where he will continue to be your servant on earth!!! Listen to this pray!!!!â
Killeen Mayor Jose Segarra said on Wednesday afternoon that he had been in touch with Kilpatrickâs daughter, Dawn, and that Kilpatrick had initially been in the Intensive Care Unit but was later moved to the Critical Care Unit.