A 35-year-old Juneau man was shot and killed after a confrontation with Juneau Police Department officers and Alaska State Troopers Monday.
A 35-year-old Juneau man was shot and killed after a confrontation with Juneau police officers and Alaska State Troopers on Monday.
Officers with the Juneau Police Department were following up on an earlier report of an assault with Steven Kissack when he “produced a knife and refused to follow orders,” the troopers An Alaska Wildlife Trooper and additional Juneau police officers showed up at the scene, shooting bean bag rounds at Kissack as they negotiated with him to drop the knife, the dispatch said.
Kissack “charged officers while brandishing the knife,” according to the initial version of events by troopers. He was shot by “multiple law enforcement officers” and declared dead at a Juneau hospital.that Kissack was homeless and well known in the capitol city for his dog companion. The dog was in the area at the time Kissack was killed, was uninjured and is “being cared for,” according to Department of Public Safety spokesman Austin McDaniel.
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