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The patrol car drove about 1 mph, he said, and when it was about 15 yards from the pickup, shots rang out. A trooper behind the driver's-side door crumpled to the ground. The other officers came to his assistance and placed the wounded man in the car. The patrol car backed up with the wounded man inside. At least one officer returned fire, but it's unknown whether the suspect was struck, Ipsen said. The others officers gathered near the chief's car, Evans said. The second trooper said his head hurt, Evans said, and when he took off his cap, he noticed he was bleeding. "There was a track across his head," Evans said. The trooper had suffered either a graze from a bullet or possibly, shrapnel from a piece of a bullet off a ricochet, Evans said. The trooper at first declined treatment but then drove to the clinic. He also escorted Evans from the scene. During the standoff, the Kotzebue airport was shut down to non-emergency traffic because the pickup was near the end of the runway.
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