A family, a department, and a Virginia community are now living with an absence that cannot be repaired. Deputy Sheriff Logan Reece Utt was 31 years old when gunfire took his life on May 29, 2026, while he was responding to a welfare-check call in Cana. The call was meant to bring help to someone in need. Instead, it ended with a public servant dead and another deputy wounded. Utt’s loss is not only the loss recorded in an official line of duty memorial. It is the loss of a person who had chosen, again and again, to serve others. He had worn the responsibilities…

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