Roland Skip Chevalier was a 33-year-old Alaska State Trooper from Fairbanks who died on April 3, 1982. He had spent the afternoon at the Cleary Summit Ski Area and, while inside the lodge, heard gunfire. Stepping outside to investigate a violent domestic dispute, he was struck in the heart by a .30–06 round and died before help could reach him.

The shooting unfolded during a confrontation in which a drunken father had turned on his mentally ill son. The son fired the fatal shot and maintained he had been defending himself from his father, saying the trooper’s death was an accident in the chaos. A jury acquitted the son of murder. The father was convicted of attempted murder for his role in instigating the violence.

Chevalier left a wife, a daughter, and a son; colleagues and the community commemorate his end of watch each April. Does anyone have recollections of Cleary Summit in 1982 or knew Trooper Chevalier and his family?