SLEEPY EYE, Minn. — Police closed in on a rural house and captured an Iowa man accused of shooting and killing an Iowa police officer. Kyle Lou Ricke, 43, of Algona, Iowa, surrendered without resistance, said Brown County Sheriff Jason Seidl. The arrest, about 11:50 p.m., was within four hours of the shooting of Algoma police officer Kevin Cram. He died while arresting Ricke on a warrant for violating a restraining order stemming from a domestic complaint. Ricke fled north. Algoma authorities had reason to believe that Ricke drove 110 miles into Minnesota and was at an address southwest of Sleepy Eye. The Minnesota State Patrol, including an air unit, and Brown County deputies and Sleepy Eye police convened on the house. This was in the in the 29000 block of 210th Street in in Leavenworth Township. Ricke was booked at the New Ulm jail for extradition back to Iowa. In Algoma papers were being drawn up for first-degree murder.
Ricke. Accused of fatally shooting an Algoma, Iowa, police officer making an arrest.