LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The family of a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detective killed by a falling construction beam in 2022, has reached a settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit against three companies involved in the roadwork.
The lawsuit was initially filed in 2023 by Detective Justin Terry’s widow Stacey Terry and his two sons, against Western States Contracting, Inc., Las Vegas Paving Corporation, and D.H. Charles Engineering Inc.
What the complaint alleges
On June 10, 2022, Detective Justin Terry was driving southbound on I-11 approaching the 215 Beltway in northwest Las Vegas, according to the complaint. The area was under construction at the time, with Las Vegas Paving Corporation serving as general contractor for the project, the complaint states.
A tractor-trailer driven by Glen Joseph Lewis, an employee of Western States Contracting, was traveling in front of Terry’s vehicle when the boom and arm struck a horizontal metal beam positioned over the southbound lanes of I-11 as part of the project, according to the complaint. The beam, which the complaint states weighed more than 7,000 pounds, fell and came to rest on top of Terry’s vehicle…