The St. Croix County deputy shot and killed in Wisconsin over the weekend leaves behind a wife and an infant son, according to online reports.
29-year-old Deputy Kaitie Leising was responding to reports of a driver in the ditch near Glenwood City.
Investigators say she asked the driver, 34-year-old Jeremiah Johnson to do a sobriety test.
That’s when investigators say he shot Leising, who returned fire but missed.
She died at the hospital and Johnson was later found dead next to a gun after running into the nearby woods.
Glenwood City’s mayor, who is also a Wisconsin State Patrol sergeant, adorned the town with blue ribbons on Sunday in support of the sheriff’s office and also posted a message on social media asking people to “continue to be thoughtful of each other as we move forward through these difficult times.”
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