Wilkerson got sick in November and has been fighting for his life ever since. Author: Bary Roy Updated: 1:10 PM CDT March 15, 2021 KILLEEN, Texas — It has been one year since the first reported case of the coronavirus surfaced in Bell County as the pandemic began to spread around the world. "COVID, I've called it a ghost because we don't know where it is or where it's lurking and it can just sneak up on you," said Angenet Wilkerson as she sat in the living room of her mother's house in Killeen. Wilkerson said that both her and her husband Ernest became concerned when the virus arrived in Central Texas because of the racial disparity that came with it.