Print article A 25-year-old man is now facing a charge of second-degree murder after he stranded his friend alongside the Glenn Highway in frigid weather before returning and hitting him with his car earlier this month, according to court documents. Brian McGee was charged last week with an aggravated count of failure to render aid and has since been held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex. On Tuesday, police said he was served an arrest warrant on the new charge. On Jan. 2, McGee had picked up his friend, 26-year-old Chase Bowerson, from his home in Chugiak and headed to an Eagle River bar, according to a criminal complaint filed by Anchorage police detective Jeff Bell. When the bar closed, the two men headed to Wasilla in McGee’s Ford Taurus to continue drinking, the charging document said.
Court officials on Monday deferred setting a trial date for Matthew Bowe, who was charged in the 2016 fatal shooting of a man on a fishing vessel in Kodiak’s St.
Anchorage man fleeing trooper nearly struck school bus before shooting Wasilla police officer in the hand, charges say
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This article has been updated to correct the spelling of the wounded Wasilla officer. He is Adam Gebert, not Gerbert. An Anchorage man who shot and injured a Wasilla police officer Thursday nearly struck a school bus before the confrontation, according to charges. Patrick E. Marrs II, 57, is facing charges including attempted murder for shooting Officer Adam Gebert in the hand during what troopers described as a “volley of gunfire” outside a convenience store. Just before 5 p.m., Gebert noticed a silver Pontiac Grand Am that had a license plate registered to another vehicle, according to a sworn affidavit filed by Trooper Jason Fieser. Gebert tried to pull over the vehicle, which Marrs was driving, but Marrs sped away, hitting speeds of 75 mph on an icy stretch of Bogard Road, the charges said.
Print article Coronavirus cases continue to spread in Alaska’s correctional system, where more than half the state’s facilities are over capacity. State officials have tallied 72 active cases at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River, where female prisoners are housed, as of Friday. That’s up from three on Tuesday, according to Sarah Gallagher, spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Corrections. Those inmates had symptoms, Gallagher said. Facility-wide testing turned up another 66 inmates who tested positive for the virus. An outbreak is also growing at the Anchorage Correctional Complex. As of Friday, 190 inmates had active infections, according to state corrections data. Earlier this week, there were 112 active cases.