Roll of Honor
Incident
Corporal Avery Hillman died as a result of complications after contracting COVID-19 while on duty at Crisp Regional Hospital.
Corporal Hillman was a veteran of the Georgia National Guard. He had served with the Crisp County Sheriff's Office for 30 years and was assigned to the Hospital Division.
Beginning in early 2020, thousands of law enforcement officers and other first responders throughout the country began to contract COVID-19 during the worldwide pandemic. Due to the nature of their job, law enforcement officers were required to work and interact with the community even as the majority of the country was self-quarantined. As a result, hundreds of officers died from COVID-related illnesses and other complications.
Corrections agencies, in particular, suffered tremendous losses due to the constant and close proximity between the corrections officers and large inmate populations. Since March 2020, ODMP has verified that over 900 law enforcement officers have died as the result of a confirmed or presumed exposure while on duty and continues to work with hundreds of other agencies that have suffered a COVID-related death.
Visit ODMP's COVID-19 memorial listing every officer who has died as a result of a confirmed or presumed exposure.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Corporal Avery Delshawn Hillman died on October 31, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 50.
He is one of 884 officers honored here.
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.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Corporal Hillman gave the Crisp County Sheriff's Office 30 years.
Thank you for your service to the Cordele community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corporal Hillman.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Avery Delshawn Hillman served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.
Corporal Avery Delshawn Hillman is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,787 officers honored here.
In GA, 63 of 905 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 7% of this state's fallen. That is 7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Crisp County Sheriff's Office, 1 of 2 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 50% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Avery Delshawn Hillman's cause is highlighted.
How Avery Delshawn Hillman Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Avery Delshawn Hillman is highlighted in Oct.
Incident Location
Military Service
Avery Delshawn Hillman served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.
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