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Police Officer Jacob Candanoza
Police Officer Jacob Candanoza

Terrell Police Department, Texas End of Watch: Sunday, December 8, 2024 Police Officer Jacob Candanoza was shot and killed during a traffic stop at the 1600 block of South State Highway 34 in Terrell. At 11:00 p.m., Officer Candanoza requested backup after initiating a traffic stop at the Motel 8 parking lot. A struggle ensued, a...

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Detective Allan Reddins
Detective Allan Reddins

Oak Park Police Department, Illinois End of Watch: Friday, November 29, 2024 Detective Allan Reddins was shot and killed while responding to reports of an armed man leaving a bank in the 1000 block of Lake Street at about 9:30 am. He and other officers encountered the man two blocks away, in the 800 block...

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Police Officer Cooper Dawson
Police Officer Cooper Dawson

Greenville Police Department, Texas End of Watch: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 Police Officer Cooper Dawson succumbed to gunshot wounds he received while pursuing a subject who fled a traffic stop. At 7:40 p.m., Officer Dawson stopped a driver who had multiple felony warrants at the 3500 block of Pickett Street. The driver fled the car...

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Police Officer Enrique Martinez
Police Officer Enrique Martinez

Chicago Police Department, Illinois End of Watch: Monday, November 4, 2024 Police Officer Enrique Martinez was shot and killed while making a traffic stop at the 8000 block of South Ingleside Avenue at 8:00 p.m. Officer Martinez and his partner were speaking with the driver of the vehicle, who was blocking traffic. When they noticed t...

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Deputy Sheriff Joshua C. Phipps
Deputy Sheriff Joshua C. Phipps

Russell County Sheriff’s Office, Kentucky End of Watch: Monday, September 16, 2024 Deputy Sheriff Josh Phipps was shot and killed while pursuing a fleeing suspect on Bluebird Drive in Russell Springs. Deputy Phipps was assisting the Kentucky State Police in apprehending a suspect who had fled on foot. During the encounter with the suspect at...

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Corporal Brandon Schreiber
Corporal Brandon Schreiber

Newton County Sheriff’s Department, Indiana End of Watch: Wednesday, September 11, 2024 Corporal Brandon Schreiber succumbed to gunshot wounds he received after a vehicle pursuit on September 1, 2024. Corporal Schreiber joined a pursuit initiated by the Iroquois County Sheriff’s Office (Illinois) when the driver, who was armed, fled into Indiana. The pursuit returned to...

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Police Officer Jaime Junior Roman
Police Officer Jaime Junior Roman

Philadelphia Police Department, Pennsylvania End of Watch: Tuesday, September 10, 2024 Police Officer Jaime Roman succumbed to gunshot wounds he received on June 22, 2024, during a traffic stop. Officer Roman and another officer initiated a traffic stop at the 3500 block of F Street in Kensington at 7:18 p.m. They determined that the vehicle w...

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Police Officer Zane Tristan Coolidge
Police Officer Zane Tristan Coolidge

Phoenix Police Department, Arizona End of Watch: Friday, September 6, 2024 Police Officer Zane Coolidge succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained three days earlier while responding to reports of a larceny from a motor vehicle near the intersection of 16th Street and McDowell Road at about 6:30 pm. As officers arrived on scene, the suspect fled...

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Police Officer Darron Lee Burks
Police Officer Darron Lee Burks

Dallas Police Department, Texas  End of Watch: Thursday, August 29, 2024 Police Officer Darron Burks was shot and killed in his squad car at the 900 block of East Ledbetter Drive. At 10:10 p.m., officers responded to an officer in-distress call. When they arrived at the 900 block of East Ledbetter Drive, they approached a m...

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Investigator Taylor Jaimeson Bristow
Investigator Taylor Jaimeson Bristow

Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, Georgia End of Watch: Friday, August 23, 2024 Investigator Taylor Bristow succumbed to a gunshot wound sustained three days earlier while serving a warrant related to a child sexual exploitation investigation. He was assisting agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to serve the warrant at a home on Don Rich...

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Deputy Sheriff Brandon Tyler Cunningham
Deputy Sheriff Brandon Tyler Cunningham

Paulding County Sheriff’s Office, Georgia End of Watch: Saturday, August 17, 2024 Deputy Sheriff Brandon Cunningham was shot and killed while responding to a domestic call in Hiram. Shortly after 6:00 p.m., Deputy Cunningham and his partner arrived at the home and were ambushed with a hail of gunfire as soon as they exited their...

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Deputy Sheriff Hunter Reedy
Deputy Sheriff Hunter Reedy

Smyth County Sheriff’s Office, Virginia End of Watch: Friday, August 9, 2024 Deputy Sheriff Hunter Reedy was shot and killed while assisting officers from the Marion Police Department with a traffic stop at about 5:00 pm. A Marion police officer had initiated the stop for a moving violation in the town; however, the vehicle drove...

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Patrolman Troy Floyd
Patrolman Troy Floyd

Summit Police Department, Mississippi End of Watch: Thursday, August 8, 2024 Patrolman Troy Floyd was shot and killed while conducting a checkpoint near W Railroad Avenue. A passenger in a vehicle that approached the checkpoint opened fire, fatally wounding Patrolman Floyd. Officers from the McComb Police Department responded to assist the Summit Police Department following t...

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Master Deputy Sheriff Bradley Michael Link
Master Deputy Sheriff Bradley Michael Link

Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Florida End of Watch: Saturday, August 3, 2024 Master Deputy Sheriff Brad Link was shot and killed when he and other deputies responded to a disturbance at a home on Brookside Drive near County Road 439 in Eustis. As deputies responded to the initial 911 call, they were directed to a...

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Deputy Sheriff Rafael Wordlaw
Deputy Sheriff Rafael Wordlaw

Cook County Sheriff’s Office – Department of Corrections, Illinois Deputy Sheriff Rafael Wordlaw was shot and killed at about 1:25 am when he intervened in an armed robbery on the 500 block of E 67th Street, in Woodlawn, while he was off duty. He was sitting in a car at a gas station when an...

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Senior Corporal Segus R. Jolivette
Senior Corporal Segus R. Jolivette

Lafayette Police Department, Louisiana Senior Corporal Segus Jolivette was shot and killed during a hostage barricade at the 2500 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard in Jeanerette. An officer with the Jeanerette Marshal’s Office attempted to serve a warrant on a convicted felon, but the subject barricaded himself and two people inside the trailer. When...

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Corporal Mohamed Said
Corporal Mohamed Said

Melvindale Police Department, Michigan End of Watch: Sunday, July 21, 2024 Corporal Mohamed Said was shot and killed near the intersection of Oakwood Boulevard and Dix Road while pursuing a subject at 11:38 a.m. Officers were dispatched to a call for service at a nearby carwash. Corporal Said arrived at the scene and pursued one...

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Deputy Sheriff Fernando Esqueda

Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Texas End of Watch: Thursday, July 11, 2024 Deputy Sheriff Fernando Esqueda was shot and killed from ambush after locating a vehicle wanted in connection to an aggravated assault. The subject had become engaged in an argument with a restaurant employee over an incorrect order and pistol-whipped the worker. Witnesses provided...

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Police Officer Jamieson Ritter
Police Officer Jamieson Ritter

Cleveland Division of Police, Ohio End of Watch: Thursday, July 4, 2024 Police Officer Jamieson Ritter was shot and killed at about 1:00 am while attempting to arrest a wanted subject in the 1500 block of East 80th Street. Officers had responded to a house on the street after receiving information that a subject wanted f...

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Deputy Sheriff William Butler, Jr.
Deputy Sheriff William Butler, Jr.

Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Office, Michigan End of Watch: Thursday, June 27, 2024 Deputy Sheriff Bill Butler was shot and killed while assisting another deputy with a traffic stop near the intersection of Beecher and Lamb Road in Jefferson Township around 2:30 p.m. The driver had warrants out for his arrest and did not cooperate with t...

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Deputy Sheriff Bradley J. Reckling
Deputy Sheriff Bradley J. Reckling

Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, Michigan End of Watch: Saturday, June 22, 2024 Deputy Sheriff Bradley Reckling was shot and killed while conducting surveillance on a stolen vehicle in Detroit at about 10:00 p.m. He and other detectives with the Auto Theft Unit were searching for a car stolen from the Red Oaks Water Park earlier...

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Police Officer Joshua Briese
Police Officer Joshua Briese

Gila River Police Department, Tribal Police End of Watch: Saturday, June 1, 2024   Police Officer Joshua Briese was shot and killed while responding to a disturbance call at 2:00 a.m. at a home in Santan, District 4 of the Gila River Indian Community. When Officer Briese and his training partner arrived on the scene...

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Police Officer Jamal Mitchell
Police Officer Jamal Mitchell

Minneapolis Police Department, Minnesota End of Watch: Thursday, May 30, 2024   Police Officer Jamal Mitchell was shot and killed after being ambushed while responding to a shooting call. Just after 5:00 p.m., officers responded to a shots-fired call at an apartment on 22nd Street near Blaisdell Avenue in Minneapolis. When officers arrived, the suspect...

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Police Officer Jacob Derbin
Police Officer Jacob Derbin

Euclid Police Department, Ohio End of Watch: Saturday, May 11, 2024 Police Officer Jacob Derbin was shot and killed while responding to a disturbance call in the 300 block of East 211th Street at about 9:55 pm. He was ambushed by a subject after he arrived at the location. The man who shot him, a...

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Investigator Samuel Poloche
Investigator Samuel Poloche

North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, North Carolina End of Watch: Monday, April 29, 2024 Investigator Sam Poloche and Investigator Alden Elliott of the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Police Officer Joshua Eyer of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, and Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Weeks were shot and killed while attempting to serve a warrant...

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