There has already been an outpouring of community support for the family of a Barnegat Township police officer who died suddenly Oct. 2. Ptl. Alex Hoffmanhad served with the department for nearly 17 years when the 40-year-oldwas strickenworking off-duty at a Lakewood site with his company, AJK Excavators. He was pronounced dead at Ocean Medical Center in Brick Township.

“He died doing what he always did -working hard to provide for his wife and two children,” said the police department in…