A community should never have to learn a young officer’s name this way: through the permanence of an End of Watch, through the silence left where a living person should still be. Officer Jacob Candanoza of the Terrell Police Department was 28 years old when gunfire took his life on December 8, 2024. He had served only four months, but the shortness of that time does not make his sacrifice small. It makes the loss feel even more brutally unfinished. Behind badge 6190 was a person whose future had not run out of room. Candanoza was a Police Officer, a United States Marine Corps veteran,…

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