An officer with the McCrory, AR, police department was killed in a automotive crash on Highway 17 Thursday morning.
At approximately 5 AM Officer Robert Aaron Barker, 26, was responding to a call to assist a Woodruff County sheriff’s deputy when his patrol car collided with a deer. Barker was traveling north along Arkansas Highway 17, south of the Patterson community, when his patrol car struck the animal, KTHV TV reports.