A Kotzebue Police Department officer shot a person with a knife who “moved to attack” them this week in the Northwest Arctic Borough town, the agency said.
Two police officers arrived at South Tent City — an area just south of town that’s used for recreation — on Thursday evening and encountered a person brandishing a knife, the Kotzebue Police Department said in a. City Attorney Joe Evans said Friday that officers had received a call for service to the area, but that he didn’t know the details of exactly why they were called there.
“The person moved to attack one of the officers, who was forced to discharge his service weapon,” the department said. According to Evans, the Kotzebue Police Department has a process in place that determines whether an officer involved in a shooting will be
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