(CNN)Luis Alvarez, a resigned NYPD bomb squad criminologist who depicted for Congress his medicinal issues during an ardent intrigue for an augmentation of the September eleventh Victim Compensation Fund, passed on Saturday in a hospice in New York. He was 53.
His passing from difficulties of malignancy connected to the time he went through with other specialists on call in the rubble at ground zero was reported in a Facebook articulation from his family.
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
"We let him know toward the end that he had won this fight by the numerous lives he had moved by sharing his multi year fight," the announcement said.
"He found a sense of contentment with that, encompassed by family. Much obliged to you for giving us this time we have had with him, it was a gift."
Alvarez entered end-of-life hospice care a week ago.
