FBI Special Agent Hicks Shot By Drug Suspect’s Wife Christina Korbe (Pictures)
Posted on November 20, 2008
Christina Korbe, the wife of an alleged drug dealer was charged on Wednesday for killing an FBI agent, Special agent Hicks, who came to the couple’s home to arrest her husband. Read more on the death of FBI agent Hicks below.
A judge denied bail on Thursday for Christina Korbe, 40, who is accused of killing FBI Special Agent, Sam Hicks on Wednesday. Hicks was shot during a drug raid that led to her husband’s arrest on cocaine-dealing charges.
Christina Korbe told police she thought her home was being burglarized and that she was shooting at an intruder.
Special Agent Samuel Hicks and other law enforcement officers entered Korbe’s home to serve a warrant on her husband, Robert, as part of a drug sweep.
Allegheny County Police said in a statement announcing the arrest that no other information would be released. The FBI also declined to provide any details of the shooting other than to say that it did not appear law enforcement officers fired any shots.
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Christina Korbe was upstairs with her 10-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son when agents arrived and may have feared for their safety, said her attorney, Sumner Parker.
“It became very chaotic and confusing and based on some other things taking place. … My client may have taken actions that she thought was appropriate and ultimately called 911 to get local police to her house based on what she thought was happening,” Parker told The Associated Press.
Christina Korbe was at Allegheny County Police headquarters until Wednesday evening, when she was taken away on a stretcher crying and holding a white blanket over her head. She was put into a waiting ambulance and taken to a hospital because she was feeling ill.
Korbe’s husband was one of 35 people charged Wednesday in the 27-count indictment for conspiring to traffic cocaine and crack from October 2007 through September. But Christina Korbe was not named in the indictment.
But alleged drug dealer Robert Korbe told reporters that the FBI agents had killed Hicks saying, “They shot their own guy.”
Special Agent William Crowley, an FBI spokesman, told The Associated Press: “Based on the information we have right now, every indication is that no shot was fired by law enforcement at the crime scene.”
Sam Hicks had been with the FBI since March 2007, and was assigned to the Pittsburgh office in August 2007, said Michael Rodriguez, special agent in charge of the office. Hicks was a former Baltimore police officer and school teacher. Samuel Hicks is survived by wife, Brooke, and a 3 year old-son.
“Special Agent Hicks made the ultimate sacrifice that any law enforcement officer makes for his country,” Rodriguez said in a statement read to reporters. “He served with honor and bravery and will be greatly missed by his colleagues here in Pittsburgh and throughout the FBI.”
Here’s a video of the FBI agent shooting from the local news station here.
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It’s a pretty dangerous world out there in america, folks!!