Officer Down
Officer Michael Cain Maxheimer, 39, had served in law enforcement for 16 years; he is survived by his girlfriend and three daughters
El Monte Police Department Officer Joseph Santana, 31, and Cpl. Michael Paredes, 42, were ambushed and killed in June of 2022 while responding to a report of a stabbing; they were not told by dispatchers that the suspect had a gun
Trooper Jimmy Cenescar was killed when his vehicle exited the roadway and hit an embankment while he was trying to conduct a traffic stop
Deputies Patrick Dailey and Mark Logsdon were killed in February by a gunman
Families of the deceased cops got word and reached out to adopt
Trooper Chad P. Dermyer was the father of two children
Howard County Deputy Carl Koontz was 27 and married with an 8-month-old son
Trooper Jeffrey Nichols is the first state trooper to die on duty in 2016
Officer Ronald Heist worked for the county parks department after retiring from the city police force in the 1990s
Two police officers and a prisoner they were transporting were killed early Saturday in a fiery crash
Detective Jacai Colson was killed in a blue-on-blue after a man fired at a police station
Two separate juries sentenced the 33-year-old to death for the 2003 slayings
Thousands of police officers from across the state and nation stood at attention for Trooper Thomas Clardy