Never Forgotten: One Family’s Experience with a Line-of-Duty Death

On July 7, 2007, Plano, Texas, Police Officer Wes Hardy was traveling on his motorcycle through an intersection, and a motorist pulled directly out in front of his bike, resulting in a collision leading to Officer Hardy’s death. When Wes Hardy died, he left behind his wife, Ashlee, and their three-year-old twin daughters, Caitlyn and Cora. Ashlee remembers the day very clearly: