Joseph Peterson

Death by Force

On the night of July 16 into the early hours of July 17, 2016, Joseph Samuel Peterson, white male, age 31, was shot inside a home in the remote Alaska Peninsula village of Ivanof Bay, roughly 500 miles southwest of Anchorage. Alaska State Troopers responding to a report of a shooting found the 31-year-old male dead at the scene, and an investigation began in a community so small and isolated that logistics complicated nearly every step. Local and state reporters described a convoluted early inqu ...Read More

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