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Retired Flint Police officer killed in motorcycle crash
Posted: 08.08.2011 at 9:02 AM
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Retired Flint Police Officer, Draike Sparks, was killed in a motorcycle crash  / facebook.com
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TEXAS -- A retired Flint Police officer has died after a motorcycle crash.

The Flint Journal reports 49-year-old Draike Sparks, who lived in Texas, was killed last week when traffic came to a hault, and he was unable to stop his motorcycle in time.

According to Spark’s Facebook page, he was a 1980 graduate of Northwestern High School, and had retired from the Flint Police force.

This death came the same day that Michigan State Police Trooper David Stokes passed away of a heart attack on I-75 near Miller Road in Flint.

Flint law enforcement officials are mourning the loss of both men.

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