The State Police report that Robert Aaron Baker, 26, a McCrory police officer for four years, was fatally injured about 5 a.m. today when his patrol car collided with a deer.

Bakers was driving north on Highway 17, south of Patterson, en route to assist on a Woondruff County sheriff’s office call. 

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