VAIL STEWART RUMLEY | DAILY NEWS
SHOW OF RESPECT: Washington Police Officer Corey Rogerson (foreground) and North Carolina State Highway Patrol 1st Sgt. Brandon Craft salute law enforcement officers traveling in the funeral procession for New Bern Police Officer Alex Thalmann. Thalmann died March 31 after he was shot in the line of duty. Friday evening, several hundred law enforcement vehicles from agencies across the state made up the procession from Thalmann’s memorial service in New Bern to his burial at Oakdale Cemetery in Washington. Thalmann, who grew up in Washington Park, was a graduate of Washington High School and Beaufort County Community College’s Basic Law Enforcement Training. He had been a New Bern police officer for seven months.