Trooper
Robert Eugene Ake
June 14 , 1944 - September 18 , 1972
Badge #240
Joined in 1970

 
Trooper Ake had apparently made a traffic contact at Northeast 36th and Westminster
in Spencer. As Trooper Ake interrogated one passenger, a nineteen year-old man
grabbed the Trooper's pistol and shot him twice.

After a massive investigation over several months, the nineteen year-old was identified as the assailant by a friend who said he was present at the time of the crime.

The man was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

 

 

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