Curtis James Gooden Jr., 38, of Texarkana, Texas, died July 29, 2007, in Murfreesboro, Ark. He was a K-9 officer with Texarkana Independent School District Police Department in Texas. He died off duty during a motorcycle ride with a small party of riders on Arkansas Highway 27 North near Kirby. The accident happened at 12:28 p.m. while riding his new 2007 Suzuki motorcycle down a slopping curve and failed to negotiate the curve. He left the road on the east side of the highway and flipped end over end seven times covering seventy four yards. His insurance had gone into effect two days earlier. An investigation showed he was wearing his helmet at the time of the accident and he was not speeding and there were no skid marks. Officer Gooden had taken a three year hiatus from riding motorcycles and recently purchased a motorcycle. He had been with the Texarkana Police Department for seven years.
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