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
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
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
A life was taken from Maui County on August 15, 2025, when Police Officer Suzanne O. was shot and killed while answering a dangerous call. She was 37 years old. Despite lifesaving efforts by first responders, her gunshot wounds proved fatal at the scene. The loss is immediate in its cruelty and permanent in its reach. For five years, Suzanne O. served the Maui County Police Department, assigned to District 1 patrol,… Read more
The loss of Sergeant Lee Sorensen is measured first in what cannot be restored: a life ended, a public servant taken, and a community left to carry the silence that follows. On August 17, 2025, Sorensen’s end of watch came through gunfire, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page record. He was 56 years old. For 16 years, he served with the Tremonton-Garland Police Department in Utah. Those facts are brief, but… Read more
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