TRAGEDY: 2 Alaska State Troopers Killed

Two Alaska State Troopers were shot and killed Thursday when they were conducting an investigation in the Interior Alaska village of Tanana, the agency and a local shopkeeper said.

Killed were Sgt. Patrick “Scott” Johnson and trooper Gabriel “Gabe” Rich,” agency spokeswoman Megan Peters said in a release. Both worked out of the troopers’ Fairbanks rural service unit.

Troopers have released few details about the incident in the isolated community located about 130 miles west of Fairbanks, other than saying one person has been detained. No roads lead to Tanana and travel there is mainly by aircraft. Residents live a largely subsistence lifestyle.

The troopers had gone to Tanana to follow up on a Wednesday night report that someone “had brandished a firearm in the village,” Peters said, adding she didn’t immediately have any further details of what happened.

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