Typical Monkey Behavior: HeBoon trapped after killing two Alaska Police

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/30/alaska.police.shot/index.html?hpt=T2
(CNN) -- A 45-year-old man allegedly shot two police officers to death in a
rural Alaska town
before barricading himself and triggering a standoff, authorities said.

As of Sunday, the the incident was ongoing, authorities said in their latest
statement.

The Hoonah, Alaska, Police Department on Saturday night contacted the Alaska
State Troopers,
asking for assistance after Hoonah officers Matthew Tokuoka, 39, and Sgt.
Anthony Wallace, 32,
were shot in what troopers described as an "ambush." Both officers later
died from their
injuries.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of John Marvin Jr., police said.
Following the shooting,
Marvin barricaded himself inside his home, according to Alaska television
station KTUU in
Anchorage.

State troopers sent Special Emergency Response Teams, and police from Juneau
also deployed a
tactical team, troopers said. The U.S. Coast Guard assisted in bringing
resources into Hoonah, an
island about 62 miles north of Sitka, Alaska, and 68 miles west of Juneau by
ferry. The Coast
Guard also launched a helicopter from Sitka to transport one of the wounded
officers to Juneau.

On Sunday, other agencies were assisting, including the U.S. Forest Service
and Alaska Wildlife
Troopers, authorities said.

"We are offering up our condolences and our support to the community of
Hoonah however we can,"
said Col. Audie Holloway, director of the Alaska State Troopers. "Sadly, two
police officers lost
their lives. We hope to end this standoff without any further tragedy."

The shooting leaves Hoonah, a town with about 800 people, with one officer
-- the police chief,
KTUU said. State troopers said they would be providing staffing for Hoonah
police following the
resolution of the standoff.

Businesses in the area were shut down, according to KTUU, and residents were
asked to stay
indoors and away from the area.

"We heard a gunshot and one of my co-workers looked out the window and he
saw one policeman
down," witness Dirk Knehr told the television station. "He'd been shot, and
another policeman was
trying to drag him away and the suspect shot him twice. And then he just
took off."

Little was known about Marvin, KTUU said. "The only information we have is
that he's had problems
with law enforcement in that community in the past, and there were some
issues of stability,"
Alaska State Troopers Capt. Barry Wilson told the station.

The shooting occurred about 10:30 p.m. Saturday (2:30 a.m. ET Sunday), KTUU
said.

Wallace began working with Hoonah police in 2008, according to the station.

He was a 2008 graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology in
Rochester, New York, and a
former campus police officer at the school.

"Tony, who was hard-of-hearing, proved remarkable at many levels," the
school said on its
website. After joining campus police, he went on to attend the police
academy, where he graduated
as class valedictorian. An All-American wrestler, he was inducted into the
Rochester Institute of
Technology's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.

A Rochester Institute of Technology statement quoted from Wallace's
interview last year with the
university's news department. "I hope that people who are in the same
situation as I am see my
story and begin to believe that if you put your mind to something, you can
achieve it," he said.
"Anything and everything is possible, it's just a matter of how bad you want
it and how far you
are willing to go to prove to people that you are worthy of whatever career
you want to pursue."

Tokuoka, a former Marine Corps staff sergeant, was a native of Hawaii who
had been with Hoonah
police since 2009, KTUU said.

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