Metro officer dies in Mexico, police say

A Metropolitan Police Department serviceman died connected Christmas Day portion vacationing with household successful Mexico, according to constabulary officials.

Officer Briar Huff was remembered arsenic a “fun-filled spirit,” who was dedicated to nationalist work and had a “contagious laughter and smile,” the Boulder City Police Department wrote successful a Facebook post.

Before being hired arsenic a Las Vegas constabulary officer, Briar Huff was a Boulder City marshal, the Facebook station said. Her husband, Todd Huff, works arsenic an serviceman for the department.

Metro confirmed the officer’s decease successful a statement, noting that she was not connected duty, but did not stock further information, including the circumstances down her death.

Boulder City constabulary said that she besides is survived by a young lad and her brother, Metro serviceman Dustin Osborne, and “many different household members and friends she called family.”

A Facebook idiosyncratic past week shared a video of a caravan of archetypal responders escorting Briar Huff’s remains.

A viewing was scheduled for Tuesday from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. astatine the Boulder City Family Mortuary, 833 Nevada Way Suite 1 successful Boulder City, constabulary said.

A ceremonial procession is scheduled to commencement astatine 9:30 a.m. Wednesday from the mortuary, heading northbound connected Boulder City Parkway, past southbound connected Veterans Memorial Drive to the Boulder Creek Golf Course Pavilion, 1501 Veterans Memorial Drive successful Boulder City, constabulary said.

A ceremonial is scheduled for 10 a.m. astatine the Boulder Creek Golf Course Pavilion.

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