Tag Archives: Officer remembrance

On February 13, 2024, the Sheridan Police Department lost Sergeant Nevada Krinkee to gunfire. He was 33 years old. A public servant who had spent more than six years protecting the Wyoming community he served was taken from it while carrying out the ordinary, necessary work of keeping people safe. According to the Sheridan Police Department and the department’s official annual report, Sergeant Krinkee was shot and killed while serving a trespass… Read more

On April 12, 2024, the Memphis Police Department lost Police Officer Joseph Russell McKinney. He was 26 years old. His life, his work, and the future ahead of him were cut short while he was serving the city he had sworn to protect. McKinney had served with the Memphis Police Department for over three years and wore badge 6317. Behind that badge was a husband, a public servant, and a person whose… 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

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

A wife and child are left to carry the silence that follows a sudden death. On March 26, 2025, Marysville Police Officer Osmar Rodarte was killed by gunfire while serving a search warrant in Olivehurst. He was 27 years old. The loss is difficult to hold in words because Officer Rodarte’s life was still unfolding. He had served with the Marysville Police Department for two years, after serving as a United States… 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

Roger Smith spent three decades in public safety, helping protect people through two North Carolina police agencies. On November 8, 2025, that life was taken by gunfire inside a hospital emergency department—a place associated with treatment, urgency, and the effort to save lives. He was 59 years old. For the people who knew him through WakeMed Campus Police & Public Safety Department and the Knightdale Police Department, Officer Smith was more than… 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

A family, a department, and a state are left to carry a loss that should never have been theirs to bear. Trooper Daniel Shown died on February 27, 2026, after injuries suffered while answering a domestic disturbance and a request for backup in Lincoln City. He was 66 years old. The finality of that date cannot be separated from the simple fact that he went where help was needed—and did not come… Read more