Officer John Kevin Lamm, 26, was killed on January 1, 1998, after responding with two fellow Fairbanks Police Department officers to a reported suicidal man at 2218 Mercier Avenue in Fairbanks, Alaska. Officers Lamm, Matthew Soden, and Charles Williams III made entry and were ambushed by the occupant, identified as Joey DeWolf, who fired an AR-15–style rifle converted to 7.62×39. DeWolf struck Officer Soden in the head and fired multiple volleys; city records state 18 rounds initially and 13 more directed at Lamm.

Lamm took cover behind a couch and returned fire to draw the gunman’s attention, returning 10 rounds and hitting DeWolf three times while shielding his partners. He absorbed five gunshot wounds, four of them mortal, which allowed his partners to get a woman to safety and for Soden to try to escape. A 90-minute standoff followed; when a tactical team entered they found the shooter dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and no arrests were made. Lamm had served three years with the department and had married twelve days before his death, leaving a wife, a young son, his parents, and two brothers.

Does anyone have memories of Officer Lamm, the January 1, 1998 incident, or information that could shed further light on what happened that day?