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On February 4, 2025, North Las Vegas lost more than an officer. It lost Jason Roscow, a 46-year-old public servant whose life had been given to protecting others. After 17 years with the North Las Vegas Police Department, Officer Roscow answered a call involving a subject brandishing a gun. He went because that was the work before him—and because someone had to go. The call ended in gunfire. Officer Roscow returned fire… 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

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

David Rose was 33 years old when his life was taken by gunfire on August 8, 2025. He had served the DeKalb County Police Department for only 11 months, yet in that short time he had already accepted the daily responsibility of standing between danger and the people he was sworn to protect. His death leaves behind a silence that cannot be measured by a badge number, a service length, or a… Read more

A wife, a daughter, and a son are left to carry a loss no family should have to bear. On August 17, 2025, Police Officer Eric Estrada was fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call. He was 32 years old. The facts are brief, but the absence they describe is immense. A husband is gone. A father will not come home from this watch. A community has lost a public… 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

Warm Springs Police Department Sergeant Chris Fisher is remembered with sorrow after his death in the line of duty on September 1, 2026. Fisher was shot and killed outside the Meriwether County Inn at 5675 Spring Street in Warm Springs at approximately 11:57 p.m., bringing grief to the department, his loved ones, and the communities touched by his service. The loss of Sergeant Fisher is painful in its suddenness. After completing a… Read more

Officer Matthew John Rittner spent 17 years serving Milwaukee. On February 6, 2019, that service ended in gunfire while he and fellow officers carried out a search warrant. He was 35 years old. This Matthew Rittner memorial remembers a Milwaukee Police officer, Tactical Enforcement Unit member, and United States Marine Corps veteran whose life was taken in an act of deliberate violence. His name belongs at the center of the story: a… Read more