STATE POLICE FALLEN HERO TO BE HONORED BY HIGHWAY SIGN
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| MD. State Trooper 1st Class Shaft S. Hunter |
(Jessup, MD) – Maryland State Police Superintendent Colonel Marcus L. Brown will be joined by State Senator Allan H. Kittleman, Delegate Kevin Kelly, other elected officials, family members, fellow troopers and friends to unveil a memorial highway sign in honor of Trooper First Class Shaft S. Hunter.
Trooper First Class Hunter was assigned to the Waterloo Barracks and was working night patrol on May 21, 2011 when he was killed. While pursuing a speeding motorcycle, his patrol car collided with the back of a tractor trailer that was parked on the shoulder of I-95, near the Maryland Welcome Center, south of Route 32 in Howard County. At age 39, Trooper First Class Hunter, was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and had served the Maryland State Police for eleven years. He left behind his wife and six children.
The State Highway Administration will be placing a memorial sign along Interstate 95, on both the northbound and southbound sides, near the location of the crash.
WHAT: MEMORIAL HIGHWAY SIGN
UNVEILING
WHEN: FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012, 1:00 P.M.
WHERE: WATERLOO BARRACKS
7777 WASHINGTON BLVD
JESSUP, MD 20794
(410) 799-2101
Trooper First Class Hunter was assigned to the Waterloo Barracks and was working night patrol on May 21, 2011 when he was killed. While pursuing a speeding motorcycle, his patrol car collided with the back of a tractor trailer that was parked on the shoulder of I-95, near the Maryland Welcome Center, south of Route 32 in Howard County. At age 39, Trooper First Class Hunter, was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and had served the Maryland State Police for eleven years. He left behind his wife and six children.
The State Highway Administration will be placing a memorial sign along Interstate 95, on both the northbound and southbound sides, near the location of the crash.
WHAT: MEMORIAL HIGHWAY SIGN
UNVEILING
WHEN: FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012, 1:00 P.M.
WHERE: WATERLOO BARRACKS
7777 WASHINGTON BLVD
JESSUP, MD 20794
(410) 799-2101
