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On December 23, 2024, Greensboro lost Police Officer Michael Horan to gunfire while he was answering a call meant to protect people from danger. He was 44 years old. The loss arrived just before Christmas, when families were meant to be together, and left a community facing the unbearable truth that a public servant had gone to help and would not return. Officer Horan had spent seven years with the Greensboro Police… Read more

David Christopher Maland was 44 years old when his life ended in the line of duty. On January 20, 2025, gunfire took a Border Patrol Agent from the people and purpose that had shaped nine years of service. The loss is not made smaller by the passage of time. It remains the permanent absence of a human being whose life held value far beyond a uniform or title. Maland served with the… Read more

On February 4, 2025, North Las Vegas lost more than an officer. It lost Jason Roscow, a 46-year-old public servant whose life had been given to protecting others. After 17 years with the North Las Vegas Police Department, Officer Roscow answered a call involving a subject brandishing a gun. He went because that was the work before him—and because someone had to go. The call ended in gunfire. Officer Roscow returned fire… Read more

Roswell Police Officer Jeremy R. Labonte, 24, died from gunfire on February 7, 2025, after responding to a suspicious-person report. Survived by his wife and family, he is remembered for more than the circumstances of his death: he served his community for over three years and was taken while answering a call for help. Read more

Cameron Robert Girvin was 25 years old when his life was taken. Behind badge 509 was a young police officer who had given five years to the Virginia Beach Police Department—a public servant whose work brought him into ordinary moments that could turn dangerous without warning. On February 22, 2025, one of those moments became an irreversible loss. Officer Girvin was conducting a traffic stop after officers observed an expired license plate… Read more

Christopher M. L. Reese was 30 years old when his life was taken in the line of duty. On February 22, 2025, the Virginia Beach Police Department lost Police Officer Reese to gunfire while he was conducting a traffic stop. The loss is both intimate and enormous: one person gone, one badge left behind, and a community forced to confront how quickly an ordinary act of public service can become irreversible. He… Read more

Joseph Anthony Azcona was 26 years old when gunfire took him from the people of Newark. He had spent five years serving with the Newark Police Division, including two years as a detective, and on March 7, 2025, he was doing the work that placed him between a dangerous possibility and the public he had sworn to protect. He never came home. His End of Watch was March 8, 2025. The loss… Read more

A wife and child are left to carry the silence that follows a sudden death. On March 26, 2025, Marysville Police Officer Osmar Rodarte was killed by gunfire while serving a search warrant in Olivehurst. He was 27 years old. The loss is difficult to hold in words because Officer Rodarte’s life was still unfolding. He had served with the Marysville Police Department for two years, after serving as a United States… Read more

On April 26, 2025, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office lost Deputy Sheriff Brandon Ray Sikes to gunfire. He was 31 years old. The facts are brief, but the loss they describe is not: a life with years still ahead, a public servant who had spent more than six years answering the demands of the badge, and a family, agency, and community forced to face a future without him. Sikes was killed during… Read more

At 31, Deputy Sheriff Daniel Weston Sherrer lost his life to gunfire while responding to a domestic-violence call near Marengo on May 26, 2025. After approximately four years with the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office, his end of watch left an Ohio community mourning a public servant who went where help was needed. Read more