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Michael McKinnie
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Correctional Lieutenant

Michael McKinnie

Georgia Department of Corrections — Atlanta, GA
COVID-19 → Illness
United States flag Georgia flag
End of Watch September 10, 2021
Age 56
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Gender Male
Incident Media Service The Sacrifice Also Remembered Department 37

Incident

Correctional Lieutenant Michael McKinnie died from complications as a result of contracting COVID-19 while serving at the Jimmy Autry Correctional Institute at 3178 Mt. Zion Church Road in Pelham.

Lieutenant McKinnie had served with the Georgia Department of Corrections for 21 years.

COVID-19 and Law Enforcement

Correctional Lieutenant Michael McKinnie died on September 10, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 56.

He is one of 885 officers honored here, and one of 12 at Georgia Department of Corrections.

Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.

Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.

Survivors

He is survived by two daughters.

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Tributes

The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Correctional Lieutenant McKinnie served with the Georgia Department of Corrections.
Thank you for your service to the people of Georgia. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Correctional Lieutenant McKinnie.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Georgia Department of Corrections
Type Corrections
Location Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
Platform Identity gdcorr.fulton.ga.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 10, 2021
Age 56
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

The Sacrifice · Illness

Michael is one of 2,028 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,552 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 2021, 564 officers in the United States were lost to illness, more than in any other year.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Michael was 56. Of the 1,996 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

September holds 11.2% of these deaths in the United States; October holds the most, 14.9%. Fridays: 14.8%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Illness deaths account for 7.4% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the 3rd most common cause.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

Georgia Department of Corrections has 38 officers remembered here, Michael among them.

Across the years
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Where

Correctional Lieutenant Michael McKinnie

Georgia Department of Corrections · End of Watch September 10, 2021

Where the Name Is Cut

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