(KAIR)--Governor Laura Kelly has ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff on Thursday ( November 12)  until sunset in honor of a Leavenworth County Sheriff’s deputy killed last month in a crash.

Kelly said in a news release that Deputy Corporal Daniel Abramovitz lost his life in the line of duty after serving and protecting his community for 26 years.

The 59-year-old Abramovitz, was killed in a crash Oct. 30 at the intersection of 211th Street and McIntyre Road in Leavenworth County while driving an unmarked sheriff’s office vehicle.

The vehicle collided with a school bus. According to a report from the Kansas Highway Patrol, the school bus driver allegedly failed to yield.