 The Office of Special Prosecutions held a press conference on Wednesday to address the investigatory approach to officer-involved shootings in the state, in which they provided an update on the recent Alaska state trooper shooting at Kasiloff Beach on July 8th. John Skidmore, Deputy Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Alaska Department of Law, met with reporters to discuss how OSP reviews officer-involved shooting cases. There have been nine such shootings in Alaska in 2024, five of them in Anchorage since May.