North Las Vegas Police Chief Jacqueline Gravatt said Thursday that the decease of serviceman Jason Roscow past twelvemonth near a abstraction that tin ne'er beryllium filled.
“His nonaccomplishment near an immeasurable void wrong our section and passim this community,” Gravatt said.
Gravatt made her remarks during the yearly Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony connected Thursday nighttime astatine Police Memorial Park, which is adjacent West Cheyenne Avenue and the 215 Beltway successful northwest Las Vegas.
Roscow, 46, was shot to death aft attempting to apprehend a antheral with a weapon successful February 2025 successful North Las Vegas. His is the latest sanction to beryllium added to the memorial, which honors instrumentality enforcement officers who person died successful the enactment of work successful the vale since 1905.
At a ceremony successful February, the North Las Vegas Police Department dedicated its North Central Area Command, wherever Roscow had been assigned, to the fallen officer.
Close to 400 attended Thursday’s memorial, including galore household members of those mislaid implicit the years. About 50 yards distant from the signifier wherever Gravatt and others spoke, Roscow’s memorial stone sat, with a plaque that work “NLVPD Officer Jason P. Roscow, February 4, 2025.”
Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley besides spoke astatine the event, on with Metropolitan Police Department Undersheriff Andrew Walsh and Las Vegas Ward 4 City Councilwoman Francis Allen-Palenske.
“This is simply a assemblage that recognizes the value of instrumentality enforcement,” Berkley said. “We cognize that civilization and nine could not beryllium without each of you.”
Alexander Cuevas, president of the Injured Police Officers Fund, which supports Nevada officers injured oregon killed successful the enactment of duty, said earlier the ceremonial that the memorial, and different events similar it, are important to assistance enactment those who were adjacent to the fallen officers.
Roscow near down 2 sons.
“Navigating the waters of a fallen officer, losing a father, losing a son, losing a friend, it’s mode excessively overmuch for idiosyncratic to grip connected their own,” Cuevas said. “This is simply a clip for everyone to travel together, a clip for radical to amusement their compassion and that they care. The fallen volition ne'er beryllium forgotten.”
Roscow, a 17-year seasoned with the North Las Vegas department, besides had his sanction added to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial successful Washington, D.C., arsenic portion of National Police Week, which took spot this month.
Cuevas said helium was successful Washington for that honor, on with Roscow’s 2 sons and different household members.
“It was precise somber,” Cuevas said. “I anticipation that Jason’s boys cognize that their begetter loves them profoundly and that he’s ever going to beryllium looking down connected them. He’s ever going to beryllium a guiding unit for those boys and we’re ever going to beryllium present for Jason’s family.”
Contact Bryan Horwath astatine bhorwath@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BryanHorwath connected X.
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