On August 17, 2024, Paulding County lost Deputy Sheriff Brandon Tyler Cunningham. He was 30 years old. The loss is difficult to measure because a life is more than a date, a badge number, or a line in a memorial record—but those facts still make the absence painfully clear: Cunningham should have had more years to live, serve, and return home. Cunningham wore badge number 1169 and had served the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia for four years and six months. His end of watch came while responding to a domestic call in Hiram, where he was killed by gunfire in an ambush. A…

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