Troop C - January 20, 2010
Trooper Jill E. Mattice, 31, was killed on January 20, 2010 on State Route 23 in the town of Morris, Otsego County. Trooper Mattice was killed in a motor vehicle collision when her vehicle sideswiped an oncoming tractor trailer.
Trooper Mattice, who joined the New York State Police on April 7, 2003, was assigned at SP Oneonta as a School Resource Officer for the Unadilla Valley Central and Franklin School Districts.
She is the first female New York State Trooper killed in the line of duty since the agency's inception in 1917.