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2 Police Officers Killed in Hoonah Alaska

Posted by Ed Krassenstein on Aug 30th, 2010 and filed under Featured News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Hoonah, Alaska

Hoonah, Alaska

On Saturday, 2 police officers were killed in Hoonah, Alaska. 45-year-old John Marvin, Jr. is accused of firing shots from inside his house around 10:30 PM on Saturday night. Hoonah officials are saying that patrolman Matt Tokuoka, 39 and Sergeant Tony Wallace, 32 were fatally killed in the shooting.

“The families was there: the mother of Tony and the wife and two children of Matt. They were good friends, they were visiting on the street when it happened,” said Hoonah Mayor Windy Skaflestad.

Hoonah is a very small village less than 50 miles to the west of Alaska’s Capital Juneau. It has a population of under 1000 people, and only covers 6.6 square miles of land. After the shooting, the town only has 2 officers left on their force. They are expected to bring other officers in from other towns.

There still isn’t any motive known for the shootings, but John Marvin has had a run in with police before, when he tried to take officer Wallace’s gun. An investigation is under way.

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