Just before dawn on January 15, 1983, in downtown Kodiak, a 29-year-old male officer, Gordon Brewster Bartel pulled into the East Harbor parking lot across from the Mecca Bar. He had warned a man before about illegal camping; that morning he approached again, intending to write a citation. In that tense, ordinary sliver of police work, the man drew a handgun—later noted as a. 22-caliber—and fired. The 29-year-old male officer was rushed from the harbor area to the hospital, where he died o
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