Two Alaska State Troopers - at least one of whom appeared on National Geographic show - shot dead in tiny village, suspect caught

Two Alaska State Troopers - at least one of whom had appeared in a television show about officers on the job - were shot and killed in a tiny village in the center of the nation’s biggest state, the agency said Thursday. Patrick (Scott) Johnson and trooper Gabriel (Gabe) Rich, of the troopers' Fairbanks rural service unit, were following up on a report from Wednesday that someone had brandished a weapon in Tanana, a tiny town of 238 people on the Tanana River. The troopers were shot dead by “a young kid” in his 20s, the manager at the village store in town told the Anchorage Daily News. Rich had appeared in the National Geographic channel's show, "Alaska State Troopers." It was unclear if Johnson had also been featured on the reality series.

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