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Ricky Thompson
Gender : Male
Age : 45
Race : Black
Date : 10/21/2023
Location : Unknown
City : Johnson City
County : Stanton
State : Kansas
Agency : Stanton County Sheriff’s Office, Kansas Highway Patrol, SWAT
Officer(s) :Unknown
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Suicide under police duress
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
A juvenile female went to the Stanton County Sheriff’s Office with unspecified injuries inflicted by 45-year-old Ricky Thompson. Police obtained a search warrant and went to his trailer home but he allegedly blocked the door and uttered verbal threats. The Kansas Highway Patrol arrived and both law enforcement agencies launched a lengthy standoff against the man yelling at them in the trailer. Police breached his door with an armored vehicle and officers threw in a cell phone, demanding to talk to him. A drone was sent into the home and showed he was injured. Police entered and found him with a gunshot wound to the head, allegedly having committed suicide under police duress during the lengthy police militarized standoff around his home.
