ALAN G WHICHER

Order a Wreath

Rank: Assistant SAIC
Panel: 34-W: 20
Department: U.S. Secret Service
End of Watch: April 19, 1995
Cause: Bombing
Age: 40
Years of Service: 19

Description: Agent Whicher was killed in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Three additional Secret Service Agents and four other federal agents were killed in the bombing: Mickey Maroney, Donald Leonard, Cynthia Cambell Brown, Claude Medearis, Kenneth McCullough, Paul Broxterman and Paul Ice. The bombing killed 168 people. Two suspects were arrested for the incident, which was the deadliest terrorist attack within the United States until September 11, 2001. One suspect was convicted of 11 federal charges including eight counts of first degree murder and executed in 2001. The second suspect was convicted of murder and sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without parole.