Richard Hardy was 38 and a detention officer with the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is listed on the National Gun Violence Memorial with the date November 19, 2025, and is memorialized there as a uniformed officer who served inside the county detention center after joining the sheriff’s office in July 2023.

Public memorial listings note only his name, age, city, date, and his service; they do not describe where the shooting occurred, what led to it, or who might be responsible. No arrest or investigative details are included in those notices. The online remembrances emphasize the loss and the fact that a career devoted to supervising people in custody ended abruptly and violently.

Does anyone have information about the circumstances of Hardy’s death or remember reports from Charlotte in November 2025 that shed light on what happened?