Trooper Shot

(Walla Walla, WA)  -- Washington State Patrol Trooper Dean Atkinson Jr. received a hero's welcome when he arrived home in Walla Walla on Sunday.  Atkinson was wounded in the face and hands when he was shot by a suspect.  He drove himself to a hospital and then was transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle where he underwent several surgeries.  When he arri...

UPDATE: From Special Investigations Unit On Septembe r22, 2022, at 5:07 pm Walla Walla area police officers were dispatched to a report of an officer shot on W.Poplar Street near Avery. Further information provided by witnesses indicated the victim was a Washington State Patrol Trooper,later identified as Trooper Dean Atkinson Jr...