The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation in Bethel has deployed health care workers to the village of Shageluk where Alaska State Troopers are investigating two deaths. Dan Winkelman is the President and CEO of YKHC and a Shageluk tribal member.
“What we did is we put together a crisis response team that is en route to Shageluk right now. And, we have two masters level behavioral health technicians that are on their way there. And we will maintain behavioral health staff there for a number of weeks as well, after the incident.”
KTUU cites a report from the principal of the Shageluk School saying that a young man killed his parents yesterday and that residents in the village had to tie the suspect to a chair at a city building until troopers arrived late this morning.
Winkelman, who is a Shageluk tribal member, says he spent a lot of today speaking with tribal leaders who were shaken up after the incident and outraged about the slow response of law enforcement.