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Taylor's role ranged from consoling police officers and Lamm's family at the
hospital to helping direct morning traffic outside the home where the shootings
occurred.
At the Alaska State Trooper detachment, which added a chaplain two months ago,
the Rev. Ed Hartmann, a veteran Army chaplain, said an officer's death
reverberates through a community - felt by police and fire departments as well as
security officers at the airport and university.
“They work hand and hand,'' Hartmann noted. “They still have to keep doing their
jobs but they also have to deal with grief and remorse.''
Some families turn to the nonprofit group COPS, for Concerns of Police Survivors,
for counseling and information. Alaska's representative is Juneau-based Sue
Reishus-O'Brien, whose first husband, Karl, died in a 1992 training accident in
Juneau.
“Police officers are a very tightknit group,'' she says. “They're family. All of a
sudden, you're not part of that group anymore.''
COPS advises survivors about a federal fund, administered through the Bureau of
Justice, that provides benefits to widows and children.
The fund also maintains a memorial wall in Washington, D.C., featuring the names
of officers nationwide killed in the line of duty.
Empire reporter Svend Holst contributed to this report.
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Fairbanks police officer shot to death
He was checking on a man who friends thought might be suicidal
Last modified at 3:32 p.m. on Friday, January 2, 1998
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FAIRBANKS - A Fairbanks police officer was shot to death Thursday night when he
and two fellow officers went to check on a man who friends thought might be
suicidal.
It is the first time a Fairbanks police officer was killed in the line of duty, said
Deputy Chief James Welch.
Officer Kevin Lamm died from gunshot wounds after Joey Lee Dewolf, 27, opened
fire with a semi-automatic rifle on three policemen shortly after they walked into a
south Fairbanks home.
Dewolf was later found shot to death. It was not clear if his wound was selfinflicted
or if he was shot by Lamm, who managed returned fire. Another officer
was treated for injuries and released.
The shootout began at about 8:15 p.m. after police were called to the home by a
friend who feared that Dewolf was going to kill himself. Officers Lamm, Matt Soden