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 […]
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 […]
On Thursday morning, a residential fire broke out in the community of Chevak resulting in injuries and one fatality it was reported yesterday. Alaska State troopers were notified of a fire burning in Chevak, a small community near Hooper Bay in Southwest Alaska. It was reported at 10:48 am, that people from the home were […]
Almost a year after the discovery of 19-year-old Roxanne Smart found murdered near the clinic in Chevak, troopers with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation have made an arrest in her stabbing death. After traveling to the community of Chevak and conducting a follow-up investigation on on Thursday, troopers report that they arrested 20-year-old Samuel Atchak of […]