Special Agent Samuel Steele Hicks
United States Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Investigation
U.S. Government
End of Watch: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Cause: Gunfire

Biographical Info
Age: 33
Tour of Duty: 3 years, 6 months
Badge Number: Not available

Special Agent Samuel Hicks was shot and killed while serving a narcotics search warrant at a home in Indiana Township, Pennsylvania.

As Agent Hicks and other agents took the male subject into custody, the man's wife fired a shot blindly from the bedroom, fatally wounding Agent Hicks.

Agent Hicks had served with the FBI for 18 months and had previously served with the Baltimore, Maryland, Police Department for 2 years.

He is survived by his wife and 2-year-old son.