Tag Archives: End of Watch

Beverly Jo Taylor walked into Ohio’s only maximum-security prison carrying books, lessons, and the belief that education could create a better future. She was not a correctional officer. She was a teacher who spent six years educating incarcerated students at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville. On June 7, 1990, that work cost Beverly her life. At approximately 9:30 a.m., after the morning break, an inmate assigned as her teacher’s aide… Read more

Police Officer Hunter Simoncic was only 26 years old when his life was deliberately and senselessly taken. During the early morning hours of August 26, 2025, Kansas City, Kansas, police officers responded to a report of gunfire. As officers approached a man found inside a truck, the driver suddenly fled. Authorities said he later abandoned that vehicle, entered another vehicle, and continued running from police. Officer Simoncic and another officer moved into… Read more

Police Officer Edward R. Byrne was only 22 years old. He had a family who loved him, a career that had barely begun, and an entire lifetime that should have been waiting for him. Instead, during the early hours of February 26, 1988, he was sitting alone in a marked NYPD patrol car outside the home of a witness in South Jamaica, Queens. His assignment was simple but important: protect someone who… Read more