Bio & Incident Details
Age: 58
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 12/7/1970
Weapon: Shotgun; 12 gauge
Suspect: committed to reformatory school
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Deputy Gaik was shot and killed in an ambush attack as he was driving his patrol car while he was on patrol near Odanah. Other deputies found him in his patrol car near US 2. He had been killed by a shotgun blast through the windshield at close range. A month later a 15 year old boy was arrested and charged with Deputy Gaik's murder.
The suspect was found delinquent in connection with Deputy Gaik's murder and sentenced to the boy's reformatory school in Irma in July of 1971.
