DAVID SHAWN CORTNER

Officer Rank: Corrections Officer
Memorial Panel: 53-E: 21
Department: North Carolina Department of Corrections
End of Watch: July 12, 1999
Cause: AUTO
Age: 36
Years of Service: 8
Description: Officer Cortner was conducting evening curfew checks of probationers, when a motorist crossed the center line, resulting in a head-on collision. The suspect driver was killed instantly. Officer Cortner was taken to a local hospital with multiple injuries and died shortly after arriving at the hospital.
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