Roland Skip Chevalier

Roland “Skip” Chevalier, a White male age 33 from Fairbanks, Alaska, spent the afternoon of April 3, 1982 at the Cleary Summit Ski Area when sudden gunfire cracked the spring air. An Alaska State Trooper six years into his service, he was inside the lodge when the shots rang out. He stepped into the cold to investigate a violent domestic dispute unfolding outside, where a drunken father had turned on his own mentally ill son. As Trooper Chevalier closed the distance toward the younger man, a ...

Trooper Roland Edgar

On this day in 1982