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Kotlik man charged with attempted murder after reports he pointed a shotgun at two people
Alaska State Troopers arrested a 21-year-old Kotlik man on two counts of attempted first-degree murder and 14 other charges after a domestic disturbance in the village Thursday night.
Kotlik is a village of about 640 people in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, about 35 miles northeast of Emmonak, according to a state community profile.
Troopers got the report at 10:05 pm. Several people told troopers the man had assaulted a boy, stolen three guns and run away, according to the troopers' online dispatch.
Two other people, in separate reports, said the man ran up to them from the woods and pointed a shotgun at them. People also reported that he fired the shotgun around his home, troopers said.
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About Emmonak
Emmonak, also known as Imangaq, is a Yup'ik village at the mouth of the Yukon River in the Kusilvak Census Area of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. It is a hub for Lower Yukon commercial and subsistence salmon fishing for Chinook, chum and coho.
Salmon management on the Lower Yukon is the subject that returns most often, with gillnet closures and openings set run by run as Chinook stay weak and chum rise and fall. The village sits on a coast exposed to Bering Sea storms, which can push water well above normal along the Yukon Delta. Serious crimes in the village are investigated by Alaska State Troopers, and federal funding for rural prosecutors and tribal justice bears on them.
Emmonak shares its fishing rules and flood warnings with neighboring Lower Yukon villages such as Alakanuk and Kotlik.