The Daily Herald
A corrections officer with the Maury County Sheriff’s Department has died due to complications caused by the COVID-19 virus.
Corrections Officer Shannon Helton served the local department for more than 15 years before his passing at Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia on Thursday.
He was 42.
“Officer Helton always had a positive attitude and left the people around him with a smile on their face,” Sheriff Bucky Rowland said.
“He is going to be greatly missed.”
Helton is remembered as a supporter of those incarcerated at the county jail in Columbia and for encouraging inmates, “to step towards a brighter future and leave their past behind."