A state patrol captain in the Fond du Lac district office says a rookie trooper’s heroic actions this week may have saved other innocent lives. Trooper Trevor Casper was shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire in the parking lot of the Forest Plaza strip mall, but not before the trooper fatally shot the suspect. State patrol captain Tony Burrell says the trooper followed the suspect’s vehicle into the city after observing the car traveling southbound on Highway 41 just north of the city limits. “Trooper Casper followed the suspect vehicle into the city and maintained a distance, a safe distance from the suspect vehicle, followed it through the parking lot at Pick N Save onto the street there,” Burrell told AM 1170 WFDL’s Between the Lines program. “There was a gunfire exchange and subsequently trooper Casper was struck and killed but also in the process the subject was struck and killed.” Burrell says other troopers and officers including himself were close behind and Burrell was one of the first persons at Casper’s side seconds after he had been shot. Burrell says trooper Casper is a hero who helped prevent a bad situation from becoming even worse. “Ultimately he (Casper) was able to meet good with evil and he took out an evil person, a person that was obviously bent on destruction,” Burrell said. “Trooper Casper paid the ultimate sacrifice with his own life. He was doing what he was trained to do which was protect and serve the citizens of this state and the community here in Fond du Lac.”
