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Cleveland Police Officer Jamieson Ritter, 27, had just been named Officer of the Month five days before he was shot and killed
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Years before slain NYPD cop Rafael Ramos joined the department, he was an SRO trying to keep young kids out of trouble; one of those students is now an officer himself
Burnsville Police Officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge and firefighter-paramedic Adam Finseth were killed trying to protect seven children inside the shooter’s home
Officer E.P. Morris served with the Raleigh Police Department for less than two years
President Donald Trump called the fallen LEOs “among the bravest Americans to ever live”
Police said the cause of the crash remains under investigation
Richard Hale had been with the Texas Juvenile Justice Department since 2017
Officer Alex Sable, who also served in the Marine Corps, had been with the York City PD for four years
Mark J. Natale helped dust-covered people fleeing Manhattan over bridges to Brooklyn and on ferries to New Jersey
Deputy William Gentry was shot in the head while responding to a dispute between neighbors over a cat that had been shot
Officer Rob Pitts was one of four LEOs who were fired on when they approached an apartment complex to confront a murder suspect
Authorities said the suspect has died from injuries sustained during a shootout with police
Hundreds of mourners gathered to remember Officer Rogelio Santander, who was fatally shot last week