Police ID shooting victim as Richardson soldier

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Police ID shooting victim as Richardson soldier
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Dec 1, 2008 20:51:47 EST

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Police have identified a man fatally wounded during an altercation outside an Anchorage bar as a Fort Richardson military police officer who recently returned from Iraq.

Police spokeswoman Anita Shell says Evan Lee Minnear was shot outside the Woodshed Bar early Sunday morning and later died at a hospital.

Shell says 26-year-old Vongdevane Vongthongdy was arrested Sunday and charged with second-degree murder.

The 24-year-old Minnear, a native of Anderson, Ind., was a military police officer stationed at Fort Richardson in Anchorage.

Shell says Minnear was a member of the 425 Military Police Co. assigned to the Brigade Special Troops Battalion.


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