New information has been furnished by AST on the circumstances of the Chevak shooting/suicide that took place on Wednesday evening. According to the trooper dispatch, the Village Police Officer Chief, Derrick McDonald, was shot while responding to a disturbance involving a firearm at a Chevak residence on Wednesday evening. The disturbance report included that 24-year-old […]
The search for a missing hunter, 35-year-old Kevin Knoll of Andchorage, is ongoing in the Eureka area, troopers reveal. Knoll was reported as lost at 1:08 pm on Wednesday afternoon by an acquaintance. Knoll had contacted the person who reported the situation, and had informed them that he had left his ATV side-by-side and “had […]
On Wednesday of this week, it was reported that on Wednesday morning around 4 am, the AC store in Aniak had been broken into and robbed of over $30,000 in cash and checks. Troopers responded to the scene at the store in Aniak, the small southwest Alaska community of approximately 500, to initiate an investigation into […]
Initial reports of a shooting in Chevak is being reported by the trooper dispatch this morning. According to troopers, at 8:15 pm on Wednesday night, they received a report that 24-year-old Harold Paniyak, pulled a weapon and shot the Village Police Officer, 40-year-old Derrick McDonald, in that community. Troopers say that the VPO was medevaced […]