Francis Edgar Roberts

Death by Force

On March 3, 2023, a 72-year-old male from Tanana, Alaska—identified by local obituaries and public safety reports as Francis Edgar Roberts—was fatally shot during a dispute at his home in the Yukon River village. He was taken first to the Tanana clinic with multiple gunshot wounds and died of his injuries; an obituary later noted his passing on that date and his long ties to the community.

According to an investigator's affidavit summarized in contemporaneous reporting, the confront ...Read More

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