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 particular cruelty of a life spent protecting others being ended while he was doing exactly that. Officer Franklin was shot and killed at approximately 7:30 p.m. while serving a warrant with his tactical…

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