Thursday, April 9, 1998 | 10:52 a.m.
The $150,000 statue arrived on a flatbed truck, preceded by police and sheriff's motorcycles and cruisers. A dozen officers carried the statue, which weighs several hundred pounds, to a storeroom near the site in front of the state Supreme Court building where it'll be formally unveiled May 13.
The memorial is a full-size bronze statue of an injured officer being assisted by a fellow officer. Behind them is a list of names of all Nevada officers killed in the line of duty. The 84 names date from the 1861 death of Carson City Sheriff John Blackburn to last month's death of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer Russell Petersen.
The names are engraved on a 20-foot-tall piece of granite in the shape of the state.
The officers who were models for the statue were North Las Vegas Sgt. Tim Brady and Las Vegas Metro Det. Fred Galey.
Brady, a 19-year police veteran, made the trip north. "I'm not only proud. I'm super-proud to have been part of this," said Brady, whose ex-wife's father is among those listed: NHP Trooper Robert McGuire, killed in a head-on accident in Las Vegas in 1963.
The procession left Las Vegas on Wednesday, stopped for the night in Tonopah, and then went through Hawthorne, Yerington, Fallon, Fernley, Sparks, Reno and other communities en route to Carson City.
The idea for the statue was conceived in 1987, and funding efforts ranged from officers digging into their own pockets to collection canisters placed in grocery stores.
The artist who designed the statue was Dan Lareau and the sculptor was Lil Mitchell.
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