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Hunter Reedy Stood Beside Marion Officers—and Virginia Lost a Young Deputy

Deputy Sheriff Hunter Reedy, Smyth County Sheriff's Office, End of Watch 2024-08-09

On August 9, 2024, Hunter Reedy’s life was taken by gunfire while he was assisting Marion Police Department officers with a traffic stop. He was 27 years old. In that stark fact is a grief that reaches far beyond a uniform: a young man who had chosen public service, a deputy whose future was still unfolding, and a community now forced to carry the silence left behind. Deputy Sheriff Reedy served with… Read more

Badge 509: Cameron Robert Girvin and the Human Cost of a Routine Stop

Police Officer Cameron Robert Girvin, Virginia Beach Police Department, End of Watch 2025-02-22

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

Remembering Deputy Sheriff Logan Reece Utt: A Life of Service Taken Too Soon

Deputy Sheriff Logan Reece Utt, Carroll County Sheriff's Office, End of Watch 2026-05-29

A family, a department, and a Virginia community are now living with an absence that cannot be repaired. Deputy Sheriff Logan Reece Utt was 31 years old when gunfire took his life on May 29, 2026, while he was responding to a welfare-check call in Cana. The call was meant to bring help to someone in need. Instead, it ended with a public servant dead and another deputy wounded. Utt’s loss is… Read more