[metaslider id="9127"] In front of the building where he lost his life, last Tuesday Ricky Rose’s family and friends gathered to remember him. The scorching heat was cooled with cloud cover as the ceremony dedicating a marker to the fallen deputy began. It was a day more than three decades in the making. “We really wanted to wait until the drama died down a little bit,” said … [Read more...] about Late deputy Ricky Rose honored with memorial on stretch of Hwy. 51 in Covington
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“Our lives changed”: Honoring the life of Deputy Ricky Rose
Mike Rose has never forgotten the call. “It was a Monday night, just after 6 o’clock … My mom called and said they were flying Ricky to The Med … and our lives changed.” Initially, it was called a “terribly bizarre accident” by then-district attorney Paul Summers. Mike’s only brother, Ricky, a narcotics investigator, had been shot in his office at the Tipton County Sheriff’s … [Read more...] about “Our lives changed”: Honoring the life of Deputy Ricky Rose
