Police Officer Russell L. Peterson, Jr.
LVMPD Remembers...
End of Watch: Tuesday, March 24, 1998
Officer Russell Lee Peterson Jr. joined the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on April 17, 1990. On March 24, 1998, while assigned to the Search and Rescue Section, he participated in an ice-climbing training exercise at Mount Charleston and was fatally struck by a large mass of ice. Officer Peterson was 40.