Joseph David Kolodski, a 36-year-old Caucasian male, was tragically killed on June 21, 1998, in Cherokee, North Carolina. Kolodski, a park ranger with the United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service, was responding to a report of a man with a rifle threatening visitors at the Big Witch Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway. As Kolodski stepped out of his patrol car, he was ambushed and shot by the suspect. Despite being flown to a hospital in Tennessee, Kolodski was pronounced
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