Saint John residents are looking for a way to honour one of three RCMP officers killed while on duty in Moncton last month, but they are having trouble getting the support they need.

Residents would like to rename Sand Cove Road in honour of Const. Doug Larche, who grew up on the street.

Larche, 40, was shot and killed by a gunman in Moncton on June 4.

“We thought renaming this street would be really great, because it means something to Const. Larche and his family,” says Jon Osborne.

However, Osborne says the idea needs the support of Common Council. So far, only two city councillors have expressed interest in renaming the street after Larche.

“We’ve been trying to contact them because we want to work with them,” says Osborne.

Coun. Donna Reardon says she would like to honour Larche, and has floated the idea of having honourary streets as an option, instead of changing the street name.

“A friend of mine had sent me pictures when she was in Chicago last year of the honourary street signs in Chicago and I thought that’s really a neat idea,” says Reardon.

However, Osborne says he doesn’t think having an honourary street in Larche’s name is enough to honour his sacrifice.

“What I say about that is, Wayne Gretzky has streets in Brampton, Edmonton has a highway named after him, prime ministers have their hometown roads named after them, if cities can get that done, at the very least, we should be able to get this done for him,” says Osborne.

Some Saint John streets have had their names changed in the past, but doing so requires more than just putting up new signs.

“There’s GIS involved and emergency services and all that sort of thing, so it is a little bit trickier, but if that’s what this group wants…then they would have to have a look at that,” says Reardon.

Osborne says he hasn’t met anyone opposed to the name change. Last month, he and a group of people tied red ribbons on telephone poles along Sand Cove Road. He says he spoke with people on the street about the name change, and they were all in favour.

Osborne and a group of supporters will present their idea to council at a meeting Monday night.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Ashley Dunbar