Marine Memorialized Along I-95 In Maryland

HAVRE DE GRACE, MD — First responders in Havre de Grace were among those who offered a final salute to the Maryland Marine who died in Afghanistan. The soldier made the journey early Tuesday morning from New York to Arlington National Cemetery, where he was laid to rest with full military honors.

Staff Sgt. Christopher Slutman, 43, was killed by a roadside bomb April 8 in Afghanistan along with two other Marines in his squadron.

Slutman, who is survived by his wife and three daughters, grew up in Maryland. He was a volunteer firefighter in Prince George's County, where he was a 19-year veteran of the Kentland Volunteer Fire Department in Landover.

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He was also a 15-year veteran of the FDNY, receiving the Fire Chiefs Association Memorial Medal in 2014 for his actions in a 2013 all-hands fire in the Bronx. On the seventh level of a burning 13-story building, he crawled on the floor to find someone unconscious on a bed. Along with another firefighter, he carried the victim down past the fire to the lobby, where medics took over.

Slutman was killed two weeks before he was to return from his deployment in Afghanistan, according to Fox DC.

The Susquehanna Hose Company reported that its crews had planned to line multiple overpasses along Interstate 95— at MD 155 as well as Lapidum, Earlton and Chapel roads — so the Havre de Grace volunteer firefighters could pay their respects between 5:30 and 6 a.m. on Tuesday, April 30.

Other fire companies around the region also lined overpasses along the route to Arlington National Cemetery, where interment was at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Patch editors Noah Manskar, Noah Krisel and Jash Bakan contributed to this report.