Fallen Sedgwick County deputy was willing to help anyone at any time, sister and friend say

Sidnee Carter, 22, was someone who was willing to help anybody at anytime.

She was doing just that Friday night as a Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office deputy, responding to a disturbance call near Maize, when she was involved in a collision with another vehicle. She died at the scene of the crash.

She had been patrolling the streets and roads of Sedgwick County less than a week.

“She [Sidnee] told me when she went into this profession the risk that came along with it,” her sister, Chario Carter-Johnson, said Tuesday. “As soon as my wife woke me up and said ‘Hey, there’s two sheriff’s deputies in our living room’... I knew right then and there. It’s still a very raw feeling.”

A funeral service will held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 14 at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 861 N. Socora.

Carter had aspirations of becoming law enforcement officer years earlier when she attended Augusta High School. Carter-Johnson said her sister wanted to join the Army originally, but that didn’t pan out.

“Once she realized that’s what she wanted, she jumped right in and she didn’t stop once she got in,” Carter-Johnson said.

Carter had been with the Sheriff’s Office for about 18 months, working in the county jail, then graduating from the academy to become a patrol deputy. She completed her field training Oct. 1, Sheriff Jeff Easter said.

“Sidnee is a very bubbly personality, extremely friendly, always helpful, was always smiling, well respected by her peers, her supervisors, and she is a little bit short in nature, but there is no hill that she couldn’t climb,” Easter said. “She just had that bearing about her that she just made other people want to be better because of the way she was.”

A close friend of Carter spoke about her journey into law enforcement and the encouragement that came along with it.

Maurice Moore is a cybersecurity consultant who has consulted for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and several other law enforcement agencies. He met Carter in 2018 ago while she was working at a Sonic in Augusta. A brief conversation led to their friendship.

“She had mentioned that she had an interest in law enforcement. This was long before she was a detention deputy,” Moore said. “I kind of knew the community so I put her in touch with some officers that I knew.”

Moore said Carter wanted to work her way up to the federal level and work for the FBI.

“I had a forensics lab downstairs and we would start doing some forensics training,” Moore said. “We would train on techniques and tactics to pull data from machines and save that chain of custom data for law enforcement.”

“This is something that she would’ve learned in college, but we were getting ahead of it, that way she could do some of that work if needed,” Moore added.

Moore, who last saw Carter on Oct. 2, said the passing of his friend is devastating.

“She is the most loyal friend that anybody could ever have. She will give you the shirt off her back or the last dollar she had,” Moore said. “She would help you when she needed help herself.”

Besides law enforcement, Carter had a knack for art, photography and bowling.

“She loved to draw, doodle and paint. She was in all sorts of art classes in school. ... She had also bowled in high school for years and was a dancer. She was just very active and never slowed down,” Carter-Johnson said.

Art is what originally cemented Moore and Carter’s friendship. The two would often paint and trade art pieces at Moore’s house.

“She kind of kept the art to herself in fear that people wouldn’t like it, but she’s a really, really good artist,” Moore said.

Carter-Johnson last saw her sister in September. She remembers having a conversation where her sister had asked if she needed help with anything.

“She would always ask how my kids are doing or if there was anything that I needed for my classroom,” Carter-Johnson said

“Yes, she got on my nerves, but she always found a way to brighten any sort of situation,” Carter-Johnson added.

Carter is survived by her parents, Annette and Jerry; brothers Chad and Chadyon; sisters Chario and Megun; and several aunts, uncles, nephew and nieces.

The Honore Adversis Foundation is accepting donations on behalf of Carter’s family at www.honorduringadversity.org. Those donating will be asked to note for “SGSO Deputy Sidnee Carter.” Checks can also be mailed to the Honore Adversis Foundation at 477 N. Seneca. Those sending checks should write deputy Sidnee Carter in the memo line.

Bubba’s 33 at 412 S. Towne East Mall Drive will donate 10 percent of their Tuesday and Wednesday food sales to Carter’s family. Managing partner of the restaurant Brandon Webb said Carter worked at Bubba’s 33 from May 2019 to October 2020.