COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) — South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff on Wednesday in tribute to a state trooper who died days after being struck by a vehicle during a traffic stop near Orangeburg.
Trooper First Class Dennis Ricks was conducting a traffic stop on I-26 at mile marker 166 when he was struck by a box truck around 2 a.m. on August 10. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he ultimately succumbed to life-threatening injuries a few days later.
Flags atop the State House, state buildings, and military installations will be lowered to half-staff from sunset to sunset on August 20 in honor of Ricks’ “selfless service and supreme sacrifice in the line of duty,” per the governor’s order…