Alaska State Trooper Bruce Brueggeman was in a Homer courtroom Tuesday, when a jury found Bret Herrick guilty of attempted murder in the Anchor Point shooting which nearly cost him his life. “I felt good about it,” Brueggeman said.
Alaska trooper says man convicted of shooting him was going to ‘finish the job’ when backup arrivedAlaska State Trooper Bruce Brueggeman, who was shot five times by Bret Herrick in 2021.
A dispatcher also sent trooper Sgt. Daniel Cox to the store, but Brueggeman said he arrived at the scene about 30 seconds sooner. Brueggeman said Herrick tried to run when asked about his warrants, and Brueggeman ran up to tackle him but couldn’t hold on and the two men fell. “He actually had a holster with a bayonet attached to it too, so he pulled out a gun and he just started popping rounds off at me,” Brueggeman said.
During his year with troopers at that point, Brueggeman said, he had never shot his service weapon at someone before. He said he drew his .40-caliber sidearm and fired it twice.“I attempted to clear the malfunction — at that point in time I couldn’t because I was struck in the arm and I just didn’t have the strength or dexterity,” he said. “And that’s when I realized, ‘Wow, I was hit.
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