Dennis Finbar Cronin served in the U.S. Air Force.
Trooper Dennis Cronin was shot and killed in Anchorage, Alaska, by an informant while assigned to a Drug Enforcement Task Force. He was meeting with the informant in his squad car when the shooting took place. The suspect then committed suicide with his motives never known. Trooper Cronin was a United States Air Force veteran and had served with the Alaska State Troopers for almost four years. He was survived by his expectant wife, two daughters, and a step-son, who he was in the process of adopting. His wife gave birth to a son a few months after his death. Trooper Cronin is the first Alaska State Trooper to die in the line of duty.
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In tribute
I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Trooper Cronin gave the Alaska State Troopers 4 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Alaska, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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