Funeral for Metro officer who died on Christmas Day draws hundreds

Law enforcement from crossed Southern Nevada packed into a structure successful Boulder City Wednesday to enactment the household of a Las Vegas constabulary serviceman who died connected Christmas Day.

Metropolitan Police Department Officer Briar Huff died Dec. 25 while successful Mexico with her husband, Boulder City constabulary serviceman Todd Huff. She was 37. It remains unclear however she died.

The fallen serviceman was honored Wednesday with a procession of constabulary cars and firetrucks from Boulder City Family Mortuary to Boulder Creek Golf Course, wherever a nationalist ceremonial drew respective 100 people.

“Over this past week I’ve had respective radical archer maine however she helped them basal up for themselves and however astonishing they could be,” Huff’s brother, Dustin Osborne said done tears. “She helped instill assurance successful others.”

Huff grew up successful eastbound Las Vegas earlier her household moved to Boulder City erstwhile she was a teenager. After finishing school, she tended barroom for a clip astatine Carmine’s Little Italy successful Henderson, wherever she met constabulary officers from each implicit the vale who encouraged her to go a constabulary officer, Osborne said. She worked arsenic a Boulder City marshal earlier applying to Metro’s academy.

Huff worked for Metro for 5 years, opening successful February 2016, arsenic an serviceman successful northeast and Summerlin country commands. Osborne said his sister’s beingness changed the time she gave commencement to her son, Range Lopez, successful July 2010.

“He became her everything and her main beingness focus,” Osborne said, turning to the boy. “Range, I cognize your ma loves you. She volition ever beryllium with you. She volition ever beryllium a portion of your life.”

Range, 11, spoke done tears astir his mother, describing her arsenic a canine lover, an adventurer and the strongest idiosyncratic helium ever met.

“My ma was a idiosyncratic who ever had to enactment tough,” helium said. “She was the strongest idiosyncratic astir apt each azygous idiosyncratic successful present knew.”

Todd Huff remembered the things that made his woman laugh, the mode she liked to rise her solid for a toast and her pridefulness successful moving for Metro.

“I’m truthful eternally thankful for the clip that I had with her,” helium said. “She would ever accidental our crazies matched.”

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