Officer William Robert Fortye joined the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on October 10, 1961.  On October 28, 1966, Officer Fortye radioed that he was stopping a northbound car on Highland Drive.  Ten minutes later, he was dead.  His assailant, in a savage struggle with the officer, had pulled Officer Fortye’s gun from its holster and shot him.  Officer Fortye’s police dog, “Burgie,” attacked the suspect.  Officer Fortye was 32.