Community Laid Flowers on Patrol Car for Upshur County Sherrif’s Investigator Who Passed Suddenly

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The flower-bedecked patrol car used by Upshur County
sheriff's investigator Marc Ryder, who died unexpectedly
Thursday after getting off work that day, stands in
the parking lot at the Upshur County Justice Center in
Gilmer. Ryder, 46, collapsed at his home in the Diana
area and was pronounced dead at CHRISTUS Good
Shepherd Medical Center in Longview, said Sheriff
Larry Webb's office. Flags at the justice center were
lowered to half-staff in honor of Ryder, who had been
with the sheriff's office since 2014 after stints with the
Gregg County Sheriff's Department, Gilmer and Big
Sandy police departments.