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TROOPER GARY GIFFORD
End of Watch: October 15, 1975.
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NHP'S FIRST DUTY RELATED DEATH
The death Tuesday of Nevada Highway Patrol officer Gary Vance Gifford, 29 marks the first time in the 26 year history of the NHP that an officer was killed in the line of duty.
Gifford first joined the NHP in July 1969 and had resigned for a period of a few months earlier this year to take the post of assistant chief of the Fallon Police Department. He was reinstated to the patrol in July and was assigned to the Incline Village area where he made his home.
He was patrolling the South Shore Lake Tahoe area Tuesday when he made a routine traffic stop just west of the Cave Rock tunnel. He was shot in the back of the head by a person he stopped, a suspect in a Round Hill Mall Bank robbery.
A native of San Francisco, he served four years in the U.S. Navy before joining the NHP. Gifford, who was divorced, is survived by a son, James, 5: his parents Vance and Edith Gifford of Foster City, Calif.; and a sister, Pamela Vogt of Fremont Calif.
Nevada Appeal: October 15, 1975 |
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TROOPER ROBERT McGUIRE
End of watch: May 15, 1961
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POPULAR VEGAS LAWMAN DIES OF CAR INJURIES
A guy who wanted to be a policeman ever since he was a little boy finished a dinner honoring his mother on Mother's Day, kissed his wife, two daughters and mother goodbye, and went to work patrolling Nevada's highways. Just 24 hours later, he wasn't a cop any more.
Robert McGuire was a policeman for nearly half of his 48 years before he was fatally injured Sunday night chasing down a speeder. He died Monday in the Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital as the aftermath to the grinding collision with a pickup truck.
McGuire started his police career pounding a skid row beat in Los Angeles before World War II. He later went to work for the Border Patrol in Chula Vista, then entered the Marine Corps during World War II, and returned to the border patrol after the war.
Then McGuire went to work for the police department in San Bernardino, Calif., and stayed there for seven years. He came to Las Vegas nine years age, worked for a few months as a guard for the Atomic Energy Commission before spending two years with the Las Vegas Police Department as a motorcycle patrolman. His last seven years were with the Nevada Highway Patrol where he became an acting sergeant late last year.
McGuire was a member of the Nevada Peace Officers Association and was born in Minneapolis Minn., on August 9, 1912. He is survived by his wife Louise; a son, Timothy Patrick, 6 mo.; and daughters Shannon Gay,; Colleen Gayle, 5,...
Las Vegas Review Journal: May 16, 1961.
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