Today, Tuesday October 16th, Alaska State Troopers released the name of the state trooper who was involved in the officer involved shooting on Trunk Road near the roundabout east of Wasilla.

At the autopsy which the Alaska State Troopers attended found that the man who opened fire then fled in the officer’s vehicle, Nicolas Leo Frazier, was shot twice by Trooper Andrew Ballestreros of the “B” Detachment Patrol Unit in Palmer. It was also found during autopsy that the two gunshots inflicted by trooper Ballesteros were non-fatal in nature. It was determined that two other gunshott wounds were inflicted by Frazier himself as he was sitting in the patrol vehicle that he had stolen during the incident. At least one of the wself-inflicted wounds was fatal.

The incident on Trunk Road began early on Saturdat, October 13th, at 4:10 am, when an Alaska State Trooper performed a routine traffic stop on a mini-van near the Parks Highway east of Wasilla. As Trooper Ballesteros was talking to one of the passengers of the vehicle when 22-year-old Frazier exited from the drivers seat of the vehicle and opened fire on the officer and struck the officer in the head and neck. Officer Ballesteros returned fire as Frazier fled in the patrol vehicle.

Officers from Anchorage, Wasilla, Palmer and additional State Troopers sped to the scene and found Frazier already dead in the patrol vehicle about a mile from the scene of the oficer involved shooting.

Officer Ballesteros was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for non-life threatening wounds and released at about 9 am.

According to court records, Frazier had warrants from two differrent cases at the time of the incident.

The investigation into the incident is continueing.

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