SAN JOSE — Richard Perez, a well-known and beloved member of the Sharks organization for over two decades, died Tuesday after he fell ill earlier this month with a bacterial infection.
He was 64.
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Perez, a Gilroy native, became ill on April 2 and had been in intensive care for the last three weeks. An April 21 post on a GoFundMe page that had been set up by friends of Perez stated that the infection had attacked his brain. At that time, Perez, who did not have any previous underlying conditions, had been on a ventilator.