Sergeant Philip Dale Nix was not wearing his uniform when he saw a crime unfolding at a gas station. He was off duty, away from the formal authority of badge 873, yet he intervened. That decision ended with gunfire and took his life on December 30, 2023. Nix was 50 years old. His death left the Greensboro Police Department without a supervisor, a colleague, and a public servant who had given 23… Read more
On December 15, 2024, Charlotte County lost Sergeant Elio Diaz to gunfire during a traffic stop in Charlotte Harbor. He was 40 years old. What began as an encounter in the course of public service ended with a rifle being raised, shots fired, and a life that could never be returned to the people and colleagues who depended on him. Sergeant Diaz was transported to ShorePoint Health Port Charlotte, where he succumbed… 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
The loss of Sergeant Lee Sorensen is measured first in what cannot be restored: a life ended, a public servant taken, and a community left to carry the silence that follows. On August 17, 2025, Sorensen’s end of watch came through gunfire, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page record. He was 56 years old. For 16 years, he served with the Tremonton-Garland Police Department in Utah. Those facts are brief, but… 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
Sergeant Terri Jean Sweeting-Mashkow gave 25 years to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office. On November 21, 2025, that long record of service ended in gunfire while she was carrying out an eviction notice in Vero Beach. She was 47 years old. The loss is difficult to hold in a single sentence. A public servant went to perform a duty that communities depend on, and she did not come home. Another deputy… Read more
Sergeant Scott Ries should still be here. Instead, a wife, two daughters, a mother, a brother, a niece, and a nephew are left to face a silence that cannot be repaired. On July 5, 2026, Ries, 54, was killed by gunfire while answering a call near 90 Chippewa Trail in Rittman, Ohio. His death leaves a permanent absence in the family he loved and in the community he served. According to 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
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