Darian Rey Jarrott was a native of Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico, United States. He was a police officer.

Darian Jarrott

Jarrott enjoyed hunting and playing video games. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He was born in Silver City to John R. Jarrott and Gloria Tarango Jarrott.
2. His uncle David Tarango is a New Mexico State Police trooper.
3. His best friend Marco Valle is also a police officer.
4. His squad leader in the police academy was Roxxanne Guerrero.
5. He was raised in Lordsburg, Hidalgo County, New Mexico.
6. He attended Lordsburg High School in Lordsburg, New Mexico where he played football.
7. He earned his bachelor’s degree in administration of justice from Western New Mexico University in Silver City.
8. In 2010, he graduated from Lordsburg High School as a salutatorian of his class.
9. Before becoming a certified law enforcement officer in 2014, he worked as a detention officer then an inspector with the Department of Motor Transportation and worked with the Department of Public Safety.
10. In July 2015, he joined the New Mexico State Police.
11. He and his wife Gabriella D. Jarrott have three children. She was pregnant when he died.
12. On February 4, 2021, while on duty, he was fatally shot by Omar Felix Cueva, who had agreed to surrender a rifle during a traffic stop on Insterstate 10 in Luna County, New Mexico. He was 28.
13. On February 12, 2021, around 200 police officers attended his funeral at the Lordsburg High School football field. Also present was his cousin Luther Mata who said, “(It) never seems fair to have someone taken away so early. You just think about his smile. You think about his attitude. (It) never leaves you.” That day, he was laid to rest at the Shakespeare Cemetery in Lordsburg.