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Records: Suspect Had Run-In With Slain Alaska Officers

Aug 30th 2010 – 2:47PM

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Aug. 30) -- A man charged in the slayings of two police officers in a tiny Alaska village was accused of attacking the same officers last year after they responded to a call about an intruder, court records revealed. But assault and other charges filed against John Marvin Jr. in last year's alleged...

2 Police Officers Fatally Shot in Tiny Alaska Village

Aug 29th 2010 – 6:06PM
AP

AP

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Aug. 29) -- A standoff was under way Sunday in a tiny southeast Alaska village after a man fatally shot two of the village's four full-time police officers the night before, then barricaded himself in his home, local officials said. Hoonah police officers Tony Wallace and Matt Tokuoka died after the...

Background on hoonah alaska

Hoonah is a Tlingit community on Chichagof Island, located in Alaska's "panhandle" in the southeast region of the state.

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