Jefferson Co. Sheriff’s deputy who lost battle with COVID honored in Washington, D.C.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) – A bittersweet second for the household of a former Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy who died from COVID-19 in 2021.

Deputy Willie Corridor was honored in Washington, D.C. throughout Nationwide Police Week. The 48-year-old father and husband started his profession within the U.S. Military earlier than becoming a member of the Birmingham Police Division, after which the sheriff’s division.

“Deputy Corridor devoted his life to regulation enforcement and labored vigorously to maintain the residents of Jefferson County secure,” Sheriff Mark Pettway stated. “To see his arduous work acknowledged on a nationwide stage is just becoming for a person of his stature.”

Deputy Corridor’s son needed to the chance to hint his dad’s identify on the memorial wall honoring fallen lawmen.

Nationwide Police week started in 1962 when President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation, which designated Could 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week by which that date falls as Police Week.

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