Arrests Made in Fatal Shooting of U.S. Lawyer Acting as Attorney General in Micronesia

Pacific Daily News reports that suspects were arrested in connection with the recent killing of Yap Acting General Rachelle Bergeron, Yap Gov. Henry S. Falan said in a statement Monday.

“The next stage in the investigation will be the court proceedings as the state moves toward the final stage of conviction,” the Yap governor said in a statement.

Bergeron, from Waukesha, Wisconsin, was shot to death in her backyard after an evening run on Oct. 14, just 11 days before she and her husband, Simon Hammerling, a missionary pilot with Pacific Mission Aviation, were to mark their first wedding anniversary.

Read the Pacific Daily News article.