Nicole Straber worried about her motorcycle-riding son like many mothers worry about their motorcycle-riding children, but she knew Killian Straber wasn’t ever going to shy away from taking a few chances here and there.

“Even as far back as when he was a toddler, he was a daredevil,” Nicole Straber said during a recent phone interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “He would do any crazy stunt that he could think of. He was a fearless thrill-seeker. There were always broken bones and stitches and blood.”

At around 2:30 p.m. on May 7, Staff Sgt. Killian Straber, 26, who was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, died after the Yamaha motorcycle he was driving crashed into a van near East Centennial Parkway and Losee Road in North Las Vegas.

North Las Vegas police said they determined th

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