David Christopher Maland was 44 years old when his life ended in the line of duty. On January 20, 2025, gunfire took a Border Patrol Agent from the people and purpose that had shaped nine years of service. The loss is not made smaller by the passage of time. It remains the permanent absence of a human being whose life held value far beyond a uniform or title. Maland served with the… 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
Cameron Robert Girvin was 25 years old when his life was taken. Behind badge 509 was a young police officer who had given five years to the Virginia Beach Police Department—a public servant whose work brought him into ordinary moments that could turn dangerous without warning. On February 22, 2025, one of those moments became an irreversible loss. Officer Girvin was conducting a traffic stop after officers observed an expired license plate… Read more
Christopher M. L. Reese was 30 years old when his life was taken in the line of duty. On February 22, 2025, the Virginia Beach Police Department lost Police Officer Reese to gunfire while he was conducting a traffic stop. The loss is both intimate and enormous: one person gone, one badge left behind, and a community forced to confront how quickly an ordinary act of public service can become irreversible. He… Read more
Joseph Anthony Azcona was 26 years old when gunfire took him from the people of Newark. He had spent five years serving with the Newark Police Division, including two years as a detective, and on March 7, 2025, he was doing the work that placed him between a dangerous possibility and the public he had sworn to protect. He never came home. His End of Watch was March 8, 2025. The loss… Read more
A life ended in gunfire on May 31, 2025, leaving behind the kind of silence no memorial can fully fill. Samuel Riveros was 35 years old—a Police Officer with the Baldwin Park Police Department whose final call began with a report of danger and ended with a community losing one of its protectors. For nine years, Riveros wore badge number 4422 in service to Baldwin Park, California. The number is recorded in… Read more
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
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
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
Frank Devin Mason was 27 years old when his life ended in gunfire, leaving behind the terrible silence that follows a public servant’s death. On July 1, 2025, the Darlington County Sheriff’s Office lost a deputy who had only recently begun his service—and whose future had barely begun to unfold. Mason had served with the Darlington County Sheriff’s Office for three months. He had completed field training one week before his death.… Read more
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