Officer Kevin Michael Cram, a 33-year-old white male and ten-year law enforcement veteran with the Algona Police Department since 2015, was shot and killed on the evening of September 13, 2023, while on patrol in Algona, Iowa. Around 7:53 p.m. he located 43-year-old Kyle Ricke on South Minnesota Street after being made aware of an active arrest warrant; when Cram informed Ricke he was being placed under arrest, Ricke fatally shot the officer. Cram was transported to a local hospital and pronounced dead.

Ricke fled the scene, triggering a multi-hour manhunt that stretched into neighboring Minnesota. He was located and taken into custody near Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, just before midnight and held in the Brown County Jail. Ricke was later extradited to Iowa and charged with first-degree murder; a jury subsequently found him guilty. The mandatory sentence for first-degree murder in Iowa is life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Anyone who knew Officer Cram or who has information about the shooting or the events leading up to it is asked to come forward.