Police Officer Igor Soldo

Officer Igor Soldo joined the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on April 9, 2006. He was a graduate of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and an avid Nebraska Cornhuskers fan. During his time with LVMPD, he served in the Patrol Division and the Problem-Solving Unit at Northeast Area Command. He became a firearms instructor in 2008 and provided firearms training to several academy classes at the range.

Soldo was a native of Bosnia. When he was young, his family left the war-torn country and moved to Nebraska to build a better life. He was well-traveled, a voracious reader and passionate about learning.

On June 8, 2014, Officer Soldo and his partner, Officer Alyn Beck, were ambushed and fatally wounded by two armed suspects. Officer Soldo was 31 years old.