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
A life ended in gunfire on May 31, 2025, leaving behind the kind of silence no memorial can fully fill. Samuel Riveros was 35 years old—a Police Officer with the Baldwin Park Police Department whose final call began with a report of danger and ended with a community losing one of its protectors. For nine years, Riveros wore badge number 4422 in service to Baldwin Park, California. The number is recorded in… Read more
Timothy Ontiveros had been a Police Officer with the Bloomfield Police Department for only six months when a routine duty became a wound that would not heal. On June 1, 2025, at age 32, he died from gunshot wounds received during a traffic stop in Bloomfield, New Mexico. His End of Watch is a date that turns a short period of service into a permanent measure of loss. The sorrow is not… Read more
Gabriel Facio’s death left a wife, a daughter, a son, parents, and a grandchild facing the kind of absence that cannot be repaired. A family that should have had more ordinary days with him instead had to endure six days of uncertainty and injury before he died from wounds suffered in the line of duty. He was 47 years old. Officer Facio served the Apache Junction Police Department in Arizona, carrying badge… Read more
Brandon Gaede was 30 years old when a call to arrest a subject became the final act of his eight-year service. On June 27, 2025, the Phillips County Sheriff’s Office lost its undersheriff to gunfire in Phillipsburg, Kansas—a public servant who went to confront danger and did not come home. His death leaves a wife and three children to carry a grief that cannot be measured by a badge number, a rank,… Read more
At 32, Milwaukee Police Officer Kendall Isaiah Corder was killed by gunfire while responding to a call with his partner. After more than six years of service, his life ended at Froedtert Hospital, leaving a department and community to mourn a public servant taken while answering a call for help. Read more
Francisco Paul Flattes was doing work built around responsibility when his life was taken. A Detention Officer with the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, he was escorting a federal inmate to a medical appointment when he was shot and mortally wounded. He was 56 years old. The loss is difficult to hold in a sentence. A public servant entered an ordinary duty with the expectation of protecting others, and the duty became fatal.… 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
The loss of Parole Agent Joshua Lemont Byrd is measured not only in the violence that took his life, but in the empty place it leaves with his wife, three children, colleagues, and everyone who depended on his work. At 40, Byrd was still giving his time and judgment to a difficult public responsibility—one that demanded patience, vigilance, and the willingness to meet people at consequential moments in their lives. On July… 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
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