A St. Tammany deputy died in a head-on collision in Mississippi, Sunday afternoon according to sheriff's officials.
Officials said that Cpl. Jonathan Panks, a member of the office's Special Operations Division, was killed in a two-vehicle collision in Mississippi.
"The men and women of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office are mourning the loss of one of their own today," an official release said.
Panks was a 13-year veteran with the sheriff's office who worked in numerous divisions since 2006 and had last been assigned to the office's Marine Division, officials said.
According to WLOX in Mississippi, Panks was one of two drivers killed in a head-on collision that occurred in Harrison County.
The report stated that around 1:30 p.m., as Panks and three passengers traveled westbound on the interstate, a car going east crossed over the median and struck directly into Panks' pickup truck.
The driver of the car was pronounced dead on the scene. Panks who was returning from his bachelor trip in Florida, was rushed to the Garden Park Medical Center. He was pronounced dead about an hour later.
