October 22, 2026 - 10:33 am

The family of Las Vegas detective Justin Terry , who was killed after a metal beam crushed his vehicle while driving on U.S. Highway 95, has reached a settlement in his wrongful death case, court records show.

Judge Kathleen Delaney announced the global settlement in court Monday, ending the 3½-year legal saga between Terry’s family and Western States, Las Vegas Paving Corp. and D.H. Charles Engineering, Inc.

“I personally always believe that if the parties themselves can participate in and find a solution, it has to be, in most cases, I think, better than leaving it to those individuals, had we selected the 12 and the eight who would deliberate to try to figure that out and work that out,” Delaney said.

Terry, 45, was following a Kenworth tractor-trailer loaded with a backhoe loader in June 2022 as the vehicles drove through the Centennial Bowl project near the intersection of U.S.…