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Pradeep Tamang was 25 years old when a call for help became the last call he would ever answer. On February 1, 2026, the Gwinnett County Police Department Police Officer Senior was responding to a fraud and forgery report at a Holiday Inn in Stone Mountain when he was shot and killed. A life still opening before him was ended in an instant.
The facts are stark, but they cannot measure the human loss. Officer Tamang had served with Gwinnett County for almost one year, bringing his commitment to public safety into a place where people needed help. He went there as a public servant. He left behind grief that no report can contain.
A Young Officer Called to Serve
Officer Tamang’s time with the Gwinnett County Police Department lasted almost one year, a relatively short tour that nonetheless carried the full weight of the badge. His recorded service totaled one year and four months, and his badge number was 2741. Behind those official details was a 25-year-old officer who had chosen work centered on protecting others.
Before joining Gwinnett County, Tamang served as a correctional officer with the Dauphin County Prison in Pennsylvania. That earlier service reflects a continued commitment to public safety across different settings. He had already taken on difficult responsibilities before beginning his work as a police officer in Georgia.
There is a particular sorrow in a career interrupted so early. Officer Tamang had given only part of the service he might have offered, and the community lost not only an officer but the years of work, growth, and presence that should have followed. His badge, 2741, now carries the permanence of what cannot be restored.
The Call That Turned Deadly
According to the account recorded by the relevant law-enforcement source, Officer Tamang was responding to a fraud and forgery call at a Holiday Inn in Stone Mountain. The call concerned a crime that officers were expected to investigate. Nothing about answering it should have required a young officer to pay with his life.
The subject invited Officer Tamang and another officer into a hotel room, then pulled out a gun and fired at both officers. One of the officers returned fire and struck the shooter. In a matter of moments, a call for police assistance became an ambush of the people who had come to respond.
Officer Tamang was transported to Northside Gwinnett Hospital, where he died from his wounds. The sequence is difficult to read without feeling the unfairness of it: he went to address a reported offense, entered a place where help was sought, and suffered a fatal act of gunfire while doing the work assigned to him.
What Gwinnett County Must Carry
The Gwinnett County Police Department lost a Police Officer Senior on February 1, 2026. His fellow officers lost someone who stood beside them in the work. The loss reaches beyond the department, because every death in public service leaves a community confronting what it asks of those who answer when others need help.
The available record does not provide private family details, personal quotations, or a fuller portrait of Officer Tamang away from duty. Those absences should not be filled with invention. What can be said with certainty is meaningful: he served in Pennsylvania, continued that service in Georgia, and was killed while responding to a call.
Grief belongs to the people who knew him best, and this memorial cannot speak over it. It can acknowledge the wound. A 25-year-old officer should have had more time, more ordinary days, and more chances to serve without being forced into a fatal encounter. His death was not an abstract cost; it was a life taken from the people and community to whom he had given himself.
Officer Senior Pradeep Tamang is remembered through the service he gave and the circumstances that ended it. He wore badge 2741 for the Gwinnett County Police Department, carrying forward a commitment to public safety that had begun in correctional service in Pennsylvania. On February 1, 2026, gunfire stopped that commitment in its first years.
The loss remains painfully final. A call that should have ended with an investigation instead ended with a hospital death, a department mourning, and a community left to reckon with the price of sending officers toward danger. Pradeep Tamang was 25. His service mattered, and the life behind that service cannot be replaced.
