A bipartisan bill to honor a state patrol trooper who was gunned down in the line of duty is another step closer to the House floor. Wisconsin Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman is leading the Wisconsin Congressional delegation on a bill to designate the U.S. Post Office in Kiel as the “Trooper Trevor J. Casper Post Office Building”. The bill has passed through the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. The next step is the House floor. On March 24, 2015, Casper was the youngest police officer killed in the line of duty in Wisconsin history when he was on his first solo assignment and was shot and killed in Fond du Lac attempting to apprehend a bank robbery and murder suspect. Months before his death, Casper fulfilled his dream by graduating from the State Patrol Academy and being stationed at the State Patrol Office in Fond du Lac. Casper was born in Kiel, graduated from Kiel High School, and attended Lakeshore Technical College where he graduated with a degree in Criminal Justice in 2014. He was active in the Color Guard and held the position of President of the LTC student government.
