Foundation awards daughter of slain Hoonah officer

According to Ohio's Middletown Journal, representatives of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation gave a surprise award to the daughter of Anthony Wallace, one of the officers killed in the line of duty in Hoonah last August. The foundation presented Wallace's daughter Lexis with $30,000 in U.S. Savings Bonds at her middle school graduation ceremony this week, in honor of his sacrifice. "It was overwhelming," said the 13-year-old, who plans to use the money to help pay for college. The foundation doesn't normally direct its benevolence toward the families of local or state law enforcement officers, but it made an exception for Lexis after hearing of her loss from the Anchorage Police Department's Scott Nissen. Anthony Wallace and fellow Hoonah officer Matthew Tokuoka were killed by a gunman in an ambush that rocked the small Southeast Alaska community. Read much more about the award, here.