Tag Archives: Georgia

On August 17, 2024, Paulding County lost Deputy Sheriff Brandon Tyler Cunningham. He was 30 years old. The loss is difficult to measure because a life is more than a date, a badge number, or a line in a memorial record—but those facts still make the absence painfully clear: Cunningham should have had more years to live, serve, and return home. Cunningham wore badge number 1169 and had served the Paulding County… Read more

A life was taken, and the loss cannot be reduced to a line in a memorial database. Investigator Taylor Jaimeson Bristow was 30 years old when gunfire ended his service with the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office. On August 23, 2024, Georgia lost a public servant who had spent six years showing up for difficult work on behalf of others. The facts are stark, but they carry a human weight that statistics cannot… Read more

Roswell Police Officer Jeremy R. Labonte, 24, died from gunfire on February 7, 2025, after responding to a suspicious-person report. Survived by his wife and family, he is remembered for more than the circumstances of his death: he served his community for over three years and was taken while answering a call for help. 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

David Rose was 33 years old when his life was taken by gunfire on August 8, 2025. He had served the DeKalb County Police Department for only 11 months, yet in that short time he had already accepted the daily responsibility of standing between danger and the people he was sworn to protect. His death leaves behind a silence that cannot be measured by a badge number, a service length, or a… Read more

Pradeep Tamang was 25 years old when a call for help became the last call he would ever answer. On February 1, 2026, the Gwinnett County Police Department Police Officer Senior was responding to a fraud and forgery report at a Holiday Inn in Stone Mountain when he was shot and killed. A life still opening before him was ended in an instant. The facts are stark, but they cannot measure the… Read more

Warm Springs Police Department Sergeant Chris Fisher is remembered with sorrow after his death in the line of duty on September 1, 2026. Fisher was shot and killed outside the Meriwether County Inn at 5675 Spring Street in Warm Springs at approximately 11:57 p.m., bringing grief to the department, his loved ones, and the communities touched by his service. The loss of Sergeant Fisher is painful in its suddenness. After completing a… Read more