In accordance to department policy, the Alaska State Troopers yesterday released the names of the troopers who were involved in the shooting of 34-year-old Falls Church, Virginia man, Atom Ziniewicz, near mile 270 of the Parks Highway on Friday.

According to reports, 16-year veteran of the Fairbanks Alaska State troopers, Trooper Sergeant Chad Goeden and 6-year Fairbanks trooper veteran Trooper Lucas Altpeter, the two troopers involved in the shooting, were searching the woods for Ziniewicz as part of the Special Emergency Reaction Team.

Ziniewicz had earlier that day, according to trooper reports, shot 21-year-old Anchorage man, Brenton Green, twice before Green was able to make good his escape from a cabin near the Parks Highway.

Both Green and 21-year-old Wasilla resident Kimberly Scharber were able to flee the cabin and make their way to the Parks Highway where Green sought assistance for two wounds that he had sustained, as well as report the incident at 6:45 am on Friday.

Troopers from Fairbanks, which included members of the Special Emergency Reaction Team, responded to the incident, and with the assistance of personnel from Clear Air Force Base, were able to set up checkpoints along the Parks Highway. Troopers began combing the woods around several cabins in the area.

When Ziniewicz emerged at about noon on Friday the troopers attempted to arrest him. Ziniewicz, thirty yards distant, produced a handgun, and Troopers Goeden and Altpeter fired their rifles to stop him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

An autopsy was scheduled for yesterday, the results are still unknown to the public. Those results, as well as the results of the investigation by the Alaska Bureau of Investigation into the incident, which is still ongoing, will be turned over to the Department of Law’s Office of Special Prosecutions and Appeals. It is that department that will determine whether the shooting on the part of the officers was legally justifiable.

The troopers names were withheld until yesterday in accordance to the department’s 72-hour policy.