Tag Archives: Deputy Sheriff

On September 16, 2024, Russell County lost Deputy Sheriff Joshua C. Phipps. He was 38 years old, carried badge 1442, and had given three years to the Russell County Sheriff’s Office. The facts are stark: he was shot and killed while pursuing a fleeing suspect, leaving behind a department, a community, and everyone who knew the shape of his presence with an absence that cannot be repaired. Deputy Phipps was assisting the… Read more

On April 26, 2025, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office lost Deputy Sheriff Brandon Ray Sikes to gunfire. He was 31 years old. The facts are brief, but the loss they describe is not: a life with years still ahead, a public servant who had spent more than six years answering the demands of the badge, and a family, agency, and community forced to face a future without him. Sikes was killed during… Read more

At 31, Deputy Sheriff Daniel Weston Sherrer lost his life to gunfire while responding to a domestic-violence call near Marengo on May 26, 2025. After approximately four years with the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office, his end of watch left an Ohio community mourning a public servant who went where help was needed. Read more

Frank Devin Mason was 27 years old when his life ended in gunfire, leaving behind the terrible silence that follows a public servant’s death. On July 1, 2025, the Darlington County Sheriff’s Office lost a deputy who had only recently begun his service—and whose future had barely begun to unfold. Mason had served with the Darlington County Sheriff’s Office for three months. He had completed field training one week before his death.… Read more

Deputy Sheriff Jeremy H. Cassady survived a 2010 shooting, intensive care, the loss of both kidneys, and a kidney transplant. On July 15, 2025, complications from those line-of-duty wounds ended his life, leaving behind his wife, mother, three sisters, two nieces, and the Escambia County Sheriff's Office. Read more

On July 26, 2025, the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office lost Deputy Sheriff Elijah Ming after he was shot while responding to a domestic situation in Kansas. He was 34 years old. The loss is difficult to hold in any simple sentence: a public servant went to help protect a woman facing a threatening man, and he did not come home. Deputy Ming’s End of Watch came after nine years of service. The… Read more

A life that had been given to public service ended with a gunshot, and the loss cannot be reduced to a line in a record. Deputy Sheriff Charles Riley was 33 years old when his end of watch came on October 6, 2025. For six years, he served with the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana. His death leaves behind the hardest truth of this work: a person who stood in the… Read more

Andrew Nuñez was 28 years old when a call for help became the last call he would ever answer. As a Deputy Sheriff with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, he responded to a domestic violence call involving an armed man in Rancho Cucamonga. He went toward danger because someone else was already facing it. On October 27, 2025, gunfire took Deputy Sheriff Nuñez from the people he served. The loss is… Read more

A traffic crash brought Deputy Sheriff Devin Jaramillo to work that afternoon, as ordinary and urgent as so many calls answered by public servants. Instead of helping the people involved reach safety, he was shot and killed. He was 27 years old. On November 7, 2025, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office lost a deputy, and the people who knew and loved him lost a life that should have continued far beyond that day.… Read more

A family is left to carry an absence that cannot be repaired. A community is left to say goodbye to a 37-year-old public servant whose life ended in gunfire while he was doing the work he had chosen. Derrick Bonham was a Deputy Sheriff with the Weakley County Sheriff’s Office, and his End of Watch came on January 30, 2026. The details are stark, but they do not make this loss feel… Read more