Memorial to honor slain Revere police officer

REVERE – The annual State House event to honor fallen police officers will center on Daniel Talbot today.Revere Police Chief Terence Reardon said the two-hour event, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., will be held at the House of Representatives Chambers where officials will place Talbot’s name on a memorial for fallen officers.Monday marks the one-year anniversary of Talbot’s death. The 30-year-old, five-year veteran officer was shot while he was off-duty on Sept. 29, 2007 in the Revere High School baseball field.”It still affects a lot of people around here,” Reardon said Thursday. “To some people, it will never leave them.”Reardon said several members of the police department have stayed in contact with Talbot’s immediate family and his fiancé, Connie Bethell, 29, who was with Talbot when he was shot.Robert Iacoviello, 21, allegedly fired the fatal shot while Derek Lodie, 18, Gia Nagy, 18, and James Heang, 18, were charged with being accessories to the murder.Reardon says the entire department hopes the trial against the suspects goes forward in February as scheduled.”We hope when the trial starts in February we’ll begin to have some closure,” Reardon said.