JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ Gov. Mike Parson has ordered the flags to be flown
at half-staff at all Missouri government buildings Thursday to honor a southwest
Missouri sheriff’s deputy who drowned during flooding.
Thirty-five-year-old Greene County Deputy Aaron Roberts’ patrol car was swept
off a roadway Friday night.
Roberts had just returned to service following a 911 hang-up call Friday night
when he radioed his car had been washed off the road into the Pomme de Terre River in Fair Grove. Sheriff Jim Arnott says Roberts’ body was found inside the car a short time later.
Services for Roberts are scheduled for Thursday in Springfield.
He had worked for the Greene County Sheriff’s Office for about a year. He is
survived by a wife and child.
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