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On February 7, 2025, a family received the kind of news that divides life into a before and an after. Jeremy R. Labonte, a 24-year-old Police Officer with the Roswell Police Department, was shot while responding to a report of a suspicious person. He was transported to a local hospital, but his wounds were fatal. His end of watch came that evening, and Roswell lost a public servant who should have had years ahead of him.
The loss belongs not only to the uniform or the department. Officer Labonte was survived by his wife, parents, two sisters, nephew, and grandparents, people whose lives were permanently changed by his death. The facts cannot measure what his absence means inside that family. They can tell us where duty led him and how abruptly it ended; they cannot lessen the heartbreak of knowing that a call for help became an irreversible goodbye. (Source: Officer Down Memorial Page, https://www.odmp.org/officer/27330-police-officer-jeremy-r-labonte)
A Young Life Given to Roswell
Officer Labonte served the Roswell Police Department in Georgia for over three years. At 24, he represented a life still unfolding—a young officer building experience, responsibility, and trust through the daily work of protecting a community. His badge number is not available in the verified record, but his name is. Jeremy R. Labonte is the person who must be remembered.
Police service is often described through duties and procedures, yet its human meaning is simpler: someone answers when another person needs help. On the evening of February 7, Officer Labonte answered. He did not know that the response would take him into the final moments of his life. He went because the work required his presence.
More than three years of service cannot be reduced to a number. Each shift placed an officer among strangers, uncertainty, and the possibility that an ordinary assignment might become dangerous. Officer Labonte carried that responsibility for the Roswell community. His loss leaves behind not an abstract vacancy, but a family grieving a husband, son, brother, uncle, and grandson.
The Call That Should Not Have Become a Funeral
At approximately 7:15 p.m., Officer Labonte responded to a report of a suspicious person at a shopping center in Roswell. After encountering the subject near the ACE Pickleball Club, he approached for questioning. According to the verified account, the subject produced a handgun and fired multiple times. (Source: Officer Down Memorial Page, https://www.odmp.org/officer/27330-police-officer-jeremy-r-labonte)
The sequence is painfully stark: a report, an approach, gunfire, a hospital, and a family left waiting for a return that would never come. Officer Labonte was transported to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds. The violence that took him was sudden; its consequences are permanent.
There is justified anger in that permanence. A police officer responding to a public safety concern should not have been forced to pay for that service with his life. A young husband should not have been taken from his wife. Parents, sisters, a nephew, and grandparents should not have had their future reshaped by gunfire. No description of procedure can make this loss feel acceptable.
The People Who Must Carry His Absence
Officer Labonte’s survivors were identified as his wife, parents, two sisters, nephew, and grandparents. Their grief is personal, daily, and beyond the reach of public ceremony. They are the people who will feel his absence in familiar places, in interrupted plans, and in the ordinary moments that suddenly carry the weight of everything lost.
Roswell also carries a different kind of absence. The department lost a Police Officer who had committed over three years to its service, and the community lost someone who answered a call when help was needed. Public gratitude cannot restore him, but it can refuse to let his death become a passing headline.
Remembering Jeremy R. Labonte means holding the whole truth together: he was a 24-year-old officer, a member of the Roswell Police Department, and a loved one whose life mattered far beyond his role. He was killed by gunfire on February 7, 2025, while doing his job. The sorrow is real, and so is the injustice of a life ended before its promise could unfold.
Officer Jeremy R. Labonte’s end of watch is recorded in a line of official history, but his life cannot be contained in that line. He served Roswell for over three years and responded when a suspicious-person report demanded attention. He was met with gunfire, and he did not return home. The record should preserve not only how he died, but whom his death took from the world.
May his wife, parents, two sisters, nephew, and grandparents be met with enduring compassion as they carry this loss. May Roswell remember the young officer who stood in the gap for others. And may the blunt unfairness of his death remain impossible to ignore: Jeremy R. Labonte was 24, he was serving his community, and he should still be alive. (Sources: Officer Down Memorial Page, https://www.odmp.org/officer/27330-police-officer-jeremy-r-labonte; Roswell Police Department, as identified in the verified officer record.)
