Richard Hardy, 38, was a detention officer with the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office in Charlotte, North Carolina, whose life was cut short by gun violence on November 19, 2025. Recorded among the names on the National Gun Violence Memorial, his entry marks the date and city where the shooting took place and notes that he served his community inside the walls of the county detention center.
Hardy’s path to that role had begun only a couple of years earlier. Online memorial records
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