Brian Sullivan (district attorney)

Brian Sullivan
In office
January 1997 – January 2001

Brian Joseph Sullivan (December 6, 1966 – December 8, 2014) was an American politician and lawyer.

Background

Washington State Legislature

Sullivan was born in University Place, Washington. From Tacoma, Washington, Sullivan served in the United States Army and as a judge advocate general and a military police officer. He received his bachelor's degree from University of Washington and his law degree from Mississippi College School of Law. He practiced law in Tacoma. He served in the Washington House of Representatives, as a Democrat, from January 1997 until January 2001.[1][2]

Alaska

Sullivan moved to Alaska in 2001 while on duty with the United States Army. In 2007, Sullivan served on the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska School Board and in 2010, he ran for borough mayor and lost the election. He then moved to Barrow, Alaska in 2012 and was an assistant district attorney. Sullivan was involved with the Republican Party in Alaska and was a district chair.[3]

Death

On December 8, 2014, Sullivan was shot and killed in a private residence in Barrow which Alaska police investigated as a homicide. Sullivan was 48 years old.[4][5] On December 26, 2014, Ronald Fischer was indicted by an Alaska state grand jury, in Nome, Alaska, with first degree murder involving Sullivan who was seeing a woman that Fischer had previously been with involved with.[6] On October 26, 2017 Fischer was found guilty after trial of all counts including Murder 1, with intent to cause death. His sentencing is scheduled for April 2018. [7] On April 6, 2018, Alaska Superior Court Judge Gregory Miller sentenced Fischer to one hundred and five years in prison for the murder of Sullivan.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Brian Sullivan profile Archived December 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine., briansullivanlaw.com; accessed December 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ Fifth-sixth Washington State Legislature- 2000 Pictorial Guide, leg.wa.gov; accessed December 11, 2014.
  3. ↑ Barrow prosecutor--a former Wash. state lawmaker--shot and killed
  4. ↑ Former Tacoma lawmaker Brian Sullivan shot and killed in Alaska, theolympian.com; accessed December 11, 2014.
  5. ↑ Alaska assistant district attorney fatally shot, nydailynews.com; accessed December 11, 2014.
  6. ↑ Nome grand jury indicts Ronald Fischer
  7. ↑ Ronald Fischer Alaska Court Record
  8. ↑ 'The Latest: Utqiagvik man sentenced to 105 years for murder,' Fairbank Daily News-Miner, April 6, 2018


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