The Associated Press
ABINGDON, Md.- A sheriff’s deputy responding to an attempted suicide call was killed when his cruiser plunged 60 yards down an embankment, coming to rest in a creek bed, authorities said.
Deputy First Class William Beebe, 28, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Police have not determined what caused Monday night’s accident near Abingdon.
Beebe joined the department in 2004, the Harford County sheriff’s office said.
The department’s last death in the line of duty was more than 100 years ago, in 1899, spokesman Robert Thomas said.