On April 21, 2024, Luis M. Huesca was shot and killed while returning home from his tour of duty. He was 30 years old. The loss is painful in its starkness: a Chicago Police Department officer had completed his work and was on the way home when gunfire took his life. For the people who knew Officer Huesca, badge 18913 will never be only a number. It will remain tied to a… Read more
On April 24, 2024, Corpus Christi lost Police Officer Kyle Hicks to gunfire. He was 32 years old. Behind the uniform was a husband and a father of four children, a family whose future was changed forever when a public servant did not come home. Officer Hicks had served with the Corpus Christi Police Department for two years. That span may sound brief beside a lifetime, but service is not measured only… Read more
Jacob Derbin was 23 years old when his life was taken in the line of duty. On May 11, 2024, the Euclid Police Department lost a police officer to gunfire, and a family, a department, and a community were left to carry a grief that cannot be measured in years of service. His badge was number 14, but Jacob Derbin was never only a number in a record. He was a young… Read more
Officer Jamal Mitchell was killed by gunfire on May 30, 2024, while responding to a shooting call and attempting to aid someone he believed was injured. Minneapolis remembers a 36-year-old public servant whose approximately two years of service ended in an act of compassionate courage. Read more
Bradley J. Reckling was 30 years old when his life was taken. On June 22, 2024, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office deputy was conducting surveillance related to a stolen vehicle in Madison Heights, Michigan, when gunfire ended a life that had already given approximately nine years to public service. The loss is difficult to measure because a badge records only the outline of a person. It cannot hold the years Bradley spent… Read more
A family, a police division, and a city were left with an absence that cannot be repaired when Police Officer Jamieson Ritter was killed by gunfire on July 4, 2024. He was 27 years old. For the Cleveland Division of Police, he was not a name in a memorial ledger but a fellow officer who had spent four years answering the demands of the badge. Ritter was attempting to help take a… Read more
Senior Corporal Segus R. Jolivette, Sr. served Lafayette for 11 years across patrol, investigations, school safety, and SWAT negotiations. At 35, he was killed by gunfire during a hostage barricade on July 25, 2024, leaving a department and community to mourn a public servant whose life was devoted to helping others through danger. Read more
Master Deputy Sheriff Bradley Michael Link of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office died from gunfire on August 3, 2024. At 28, the Army Reserve veteran had served approximately six years in law enforcement. During a response near Eustis, his return of fire enabled other deputies to escape. Read more
Philadelphia lost Police Officer Jaime Junior Roman not in some distant chapter of service, but in the middle of a duty that asks officers to step toward uncertainty. He was 31 years old when gunfire ended the future he still had every right to live. His badge, 6064, now carries a sorrow no number can contain. Roman died on September 10, 2024, from wounds suffered during a traffic stop nearly three months… Read more
On September 16, 2024, Russell County lost Deputy Sheriff Joshua C. Phipps. He was 38 years old, carried badge 1442, and had given three years to the Russell County Sheriff’s Office. The facts are stark: he was shot and killed while pursuing a fleeing suspect, leaving behind a department, a community, and everyone who knew the shape of his presence with an absence that cannot be repaired. Deputy Phipps was assisting the… Read more
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