Fulton County jailer charged with involuntary manslaughter

ATLANTA - A Fulton County jailer is charged with involuntary manslaughter after accidentally shooting another jailer and killing her. <br> <br> Twenty-eight-year-old Dean Ricketts was acting out scenarios he learned in training Sunday night in southwest Atlanta. <br> <br> A single gunshot killed 23-year-old Mychiska Patterson, a jailer who had worked for the Fulton County sheriff&#39;s department for two years. <br> <br> Atlanta police say Ricketts had removed the magazine from the .40-caliber Glock pistol he was using in the role-playing game, but a bullet remained in the chamber. <br> <br> Ricketts -- as a detention officer -- was not authorized to carry a firearm, and the gun was not sheriff&#39;s department property, officials say. <br> <br> Ricketts had completed 14 weeks of a 16-week class. He worked at the jail less than a year. Patterson -- a jail employee two years -- was not enrolled in the class. <br> <br> The shooting is still under investigation.

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