David Rose was 33 years old when his life was taken by gunfire on August 8, 2025. He had served the DeKalb County Police Department for only 11 months, yet in that short time he had already accepted the daily responsibility of standing between danger and the people he was sworn to protect. His death leaves behind a silence that cannot be measured by a badge number, a service length, or a… Read more
A life was taken from Maui County on August 15, 2025, when Police Officer Suzanne O. was shot and killed while answering a dangerous call. She was 37 years old. Despite lifesaving efforts by first responders, her gunshot wounds proved fatal at the scene. The loss is immediate in its cruelty and permanent in its reach. For five years, Suzanne O. served the Maui County Police Department, assigned to District 1 patrol,… Read more
A wife, a daughter, and a son are left to carry a loss no family should have to bear. On August 17, 2025, Police Officer Eric Estrada was fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call. He was 32 years old. The facts are brief, but the absence they describe is immense. A husband is gone. A father will not come home from this watch. A community has lost a public… Read more
The loss of Sergeant Lee Sorensen is measured first in what cannot be restored: a life ended, a public servant taken, and a community left to carry the silence that follows. On August 17, 2025, Sorensen’s end of watch came through gunfire, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page record. He was 56 years old. For 16 years, he served with the Tremonton-Garland Police Department in Utah. Those facts are brief, but… Read more
The loss of Detective Sergeant Cody Michael Becker is measured not only in the silence left inside the Northern York County Regional Police Department, but in the family life suddenly altered by violence. Becker was 39 years old. He was a husband and a father of two children. On September 17, 2025, the people closest to him lost a presence no ceremony can restore. Becker had given 16 years to the Northern… Read more
A life ended in the middle of a duty that began with an attempt to protect others. Detective Mark Edward Baker was 53 when gunfire took him on September 17, 2025, leaving the Northern York County Regional Police Department to carry the grief of a colleague lost and a community to reckon with the cost of one more public servant not coming home. Baker had given 21 years to law enforcement. That… Read more
At 32, Sergeant Scott William Heimann had already given nine years to the Hays Police Department. On September 28, 2025, that commitment placed him in the path of gunfire while responding to a domestic violence call in Hays. He was shot during the response, transported by air to a regional hospital, and died from his wounds at 4:03 a.m. The loss is difficult to hold in any single sentence. A sergeant, a… Read more
For Henry Franklin’s wife and four children, October 6, 2025, is not simply the date a public record marks as an End of Watch. It is the day a husband and father was taken from them at 41, leaving an absence no badge, ceremony, or passing year can make whole. Franklin was a United States military veteran and a Police Officer with the Sikeston Department of Public Safety. His death carries the… Read more
A life that had been given to public service ended with a gunshot, and the loss cannot be reduced to a line in a record. Deputy Sheriff Charles Riley was 33 years old when his end of watch came on October 6, 2025. For six years, he served with the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana. His death leaves behind the hardest truth of this work: a person who stood in the… Read more
Andrew Nuñez was 28 years old when a call for help became the last call he would ever answer. As a Deputy Sheriff with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, he responded to a domestic violence call involving an armed man in Rancho Cucamonga. He went toward danger because someone else was already facing it. On October 27, 2025, gunfire took Deputy Sheriff Nuñez from the people he served. The loss is… Read more
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