Officer Cormier Shares Her Story

By Terra Rivers | Managing Editor 

On Friday, the City of San Marcos held a press conference where San Marcos Police Department officer Claudia Cormier spoke to the public for the first time about her accident in May.

At approximately 9:39 PM on Saturday, May 18, San Marcos Police Dispatch received a call about a traffic hazard with items in the roadway on IH35 northbound, just north of the McCarty Overpass near the 202 Mile Marker. Officer Cormier, a 3-year police officer, responded and arrived at 9:45 PM.

Shortly thereafter, dispatch began receiving 911 calls that an officer had been struck by another vehicle in the same area.

Patrol officers responded and found Officer Cormier with severe, life-threatening injuries after being struck by a 2000 Ford Expedition driven by Neil Sheehan of Flower Mound, who was allegedly drunk at the time of the accident.

Officer Cormier gave an emotional statement on what she remembered of the accident and her struggles through the recovery process.

Cormier said it will be at least a year of recovery before she returns to the streets of San Marcos, but she is grateful for the love and support from the community and her brothers and sisters in blue as well as the medical teams, who have been instrumental in her recovery, and the first responders and bystanders whose efforts helped save her life.

“Claudia is a warrior and an inspiration to all of us that are part of her City of San Marcos family as well as our entire community,” Kristy Stark, Director of Communications and Intergovernmental Relations for the City of San Marcos, said in her opening statements.

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