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1/16/2006
Deputy Cory Allen Ricks – January 16, 2006 - Kansas - Seward County Sheriff’s Office. Deputy Ricks was killed in an automobile accident while transporting a juvenile prisoner in a department vehicle. He was transporting the inmate from Garden City to Liberal, when his vehicle struck another vehicle stopped in the road, waiting to turn. Deputy Ricks and the juvenile inmate were killed in the collision. Deputy Ricks is survived by his wife Amy, son Jacob 10 years old, daughters Mara age 4 and Sylvia age 1, his parents Larry and Roberta Ann, sisters Kimberly and Jennifer.