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NC corrections officer fired after tasering fellow officer

Shawn Soltis, a new hire with only six months on the job, was fooling around when he grabbed an ECD from a desk and shot a fellow officer in the leg

By C1 Staff

JACKSON COUNTY — A correctional officer with the Jackson County Jail is out of a job after he tasered a colleague.

The Sylva Herald reports that Shawn Soltis, a new hire with only six months on the job, was fooling around when he grabbed an ECD from a desk and shot a fellow officer in the leg. The female officer was not injured.

Soltis’ misuse of the ECD comes just as the jail is under scrutiny for two inmate suicides and the arrest of a jail nurse on an unrelated charge.

The two inmates who committed suicide by hanging were not checked on as often as they were required to be by jail staff. The officers who were on staff at the times of the suicides are still employed by the jail. They were both suspended for about a week.

The district attorney has not decided if she will file criminal charges against the jail in connection with the inmates’ deaths.

The county sheriff called the tasering an “isolated incident.”

“It happened,” he said. “We addressed it.”

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