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State Police Honor Fallen Trooper

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By Aimee Burnett

Jerome, Idaho (KMVT-TV) The Idaho State Police is dedicating one of its offices to a fallen trooper.

Trooper Fontaine Cooper was the first trooper killed in the line of duty.

Back in 1935 Cooper and Twin Falls County Deputy Sheriff Henry Givins pulled a car over that had been used in a kidnapping in Tacoma, Washington a few days earlier.

Both Givins and Cooper were killed trying to apprehend the kidnapper.

ISP dedicated the Jerome District Four office in memory of Fontaine Cooper Friday.

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