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April 18, 2024

Funerals set for officers killed in Sunday attack

Slain Officers

Photos of fallen Metro Police Officers Alyn Beck, left, and Igor Soldo. Two suspects, also dead, shot the officers at CiCi’s Pizza on Nellis Boulevard, then fled to a nearby Wal-Mart, where they shot and killed another person on Sunday, June 8, 2014.

Funerals have been scheduled for the two Metro Police officers killed Sunday.

A service for Officer Igor Soldo, 31, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Canyon Ridge Christian Church, 6200 W. Lone Mountain Road. A service for Officer Alyn Beck will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 361 Symphony Park Ave.

Soldo’s service will be preceded by an honor procession from Palm Downtown Mortuary, 1325 N. Main St., to the church. A start time for the procession has not been released. After the funeral, an honor procession will make its way to Palm Northwest Cemetery, 6701 N. Jones Blvd., where Soldo, 31, will be buried.

An honor procession from Palm Downtown Mortuary to the Smith Center will precede Beck’s funeral. A start time for the procession has not been released. After the funeral, Beck’s casket will be returned to the mortuary. On Sunday, the body will be moved in a procession from the mortuary to McCarran International Airport for a flight to Beck’s native Wyoming, where burial is scheduled.

The family of Joseph Wilcox, who also died in the events Sunday, said it had not yet finalized arrangements for him.

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