Deputy Sheriff Noah Rainey was killed in a single-vehicle accident while responding to assist a Rossville deputy town marshal on a traffic stop on State Road 26 just east of County Road 200 East after a brief pursuit.

   He was driving eastbound, with an off-duty jail officer in the passenger seat, on State Road 26 approaching Washington Street, in Clinton County, when their patrol car left the south side of the roadway and struck a utility pole.

   Both Deputy Rainey and the 23-year-old male jail officer suffered blunt force trauma and were pronounced dead at the scene.

   Deputy Sheriff Rainey, from Delphi, had previously served as a reserve deputy with the department for one year after having served as a correctional officer with the Indiana Department of Correction at the Plainfield Correctional Facility in Plainfield for one year.

   He also had served as a jail deputy with the Tippecanoe County Sheriff's Department for two years and as a deputy marshal with the Burlington Town Marshal's Office, a reserve deputy marshal with the Flora Town Marshal's Office and a part-time officer with the Delphi Police Department.

   He was survived by his wife, Maria (née Salter); sons, Easton and Nicholas; mother, Victoria (Tim) (née Martin) Hobbs; and brothers, Matthew (Victoria) Welborn, Vincent Martin, Zach Hobbs, Adam Hobbs and Eli Rainey.