Adam V. Streicher, a 23-year-old deputy with the Stark County Sheriff’s Department, was fatally shot on March 22, 2002, while serving a warrant for a 60-year-old man charged with misdemeanor failure to appear. The suspect was later apprehended after being shot and wounded by other officers and was ultimately convicted of Streicher’s murder.

Deputy Streicher had served with the department for one year and was survived by his parents, brother, and sister. The post-incident record notes that the convicted inmate later died by suicide in June 2008. In January 2018 the Exit 33 overpass over I-80 was renamed the Deputy Adam Streicher-Trooper Chad Wolf Memorial Overpass. Does anyone have memories of Deputy Streicher or information about the March 22, 2002 incident that could add context to this case?