On February 18, 1974, White/Caucasian male, Dennis Finbar Cronin, a 31-year-old male Alaska State Trooper, met an informant in Anchorage as part of a drug-enforcement assignment. The meeting took place inside his squad car. In that confined space, without warning, the informant opened fire, striking the 31-year-old male trooper and ending his life in the line of duty. He was the first member of the Alaska State Troopers to be killed while serving.
The shooter—the informant Cronin had
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