Jailer killed in role-playing shooting, authorities say
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Posted 4:34PM on Monday, June 24, 2002
ATLANTA - A Fulton County jailer who was acting out scenarios he learned in training accidentally shot and killed another jailer. <br>
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Authorities say the shooting happened Sunday night in southwest Atlanta. <br>
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A single gunshot killed 23-year-old Mychiska Patterson, a jailer who had worked for the Fulton County sheriff's department for two years. <br>
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Twenty-eight-year-old Dean Ricketts was charged with involuntary manslaughter. <br>
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Fulton County sheriff's Major Clarence Huber said Ricketts was training to become a full-fledged deputy. <br>
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But as a jailer, he was not authorized to carry a firearm and the gun was not sheriff's department property. <br>
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Atlanta police say the gun's magazine had been removed during the role-playing, but the round in the chamber had not been removed.