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A wife, a daughter, and a son are left to carry a loss no family should have to bear. On August 17, 2025, Police Officer Eric Estrada was fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call. He was 32 years old. The facts are brief, but the absence they describe is immense. A husband is gone. A father will not come home from this watch. A community has lost a public… Read more

At 32, Sergeant Scott William Heimann had already given nine years to the Hays Police Department. On September 28, 2025, that commitment placed him in the path of gunfire while responding to a domestic violence call in Hays. He was shot during the response, transported by air to a regional hospital, and died from his wounds at 4:03 a.m. The loss is difficult to hold in any single sentence. A sergeant, a… Read more