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
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
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
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