The daughter of a 37-year-old man who was fatally stabbed in a Douglas apartment Thursday morning says her father was senselessly slain over a stolen cell phone and an iPod.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m angry that it happened,\u201d said 21-year-old Ellen Marie Sharclane Gomez, the oldest of Jordon J. Sharclane\u2019s five children. \u201cIt was all over a phone and an iPod.\u201d<\/p>\n
Juneau police on Thursday arrested 19-year-old Kevin Scott Nauska for first-degree murder in connection to Sharclane\u2019s death. Nauska was also charged with attempted first-degree murder for stabbing Sharclane\u2019s 19-year-old son, Michael Sharclane, who is still recovering from injuries at Bartlett Regional Hospital.<\/p>\n
In a phone interview Thursday afternoon, Gomez alleged Nauska previously \u201crobbed\u201d her brother, Michael, and stole his phone and iPod. She said her brother and dad then went to Cedar Park where Nauska was at Thursday morning to try to recover the stolen property.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt turned into a big fight, and that\u2019s when they got stabbed,\u201d she said. \u201cMy brother was stabbed twice in the front and twice in the back. My dad was stabbed in his chest and his side.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gomez added that her dad died protecting her brother. Another Sharclane family member was there at the scene and witnessed everything, she said.<\/p>\n
Police have not yet confirmed the family\u2019s version of events, and charging documents in the case have not yet been filed. Juneau Police Department spokeswoman Erann Kalwara said police are still interviewing people involved in the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t share any of that yet,\u201d Kalwara said when reached by phone Thursday afternoon. \u201cIt\u2019s still very much being actively investigated.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not yet clear in police reports whether Nauska lived at the Cedar Park apartment, but police confirmed he was inside it, Kalwara said.<\/p>\n
Police and Capital City Fire\/Rescue medics responded to a 911 call reporting a stabbing at Cedar Park in the 3400 block of Foster Avenue, an affordable housing apartment complex managed by the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, a little before 4 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n
Jordon Sharclane was pronounced dead at the scene and his son Michael was taken to BRH with serious injuries, police said. Hospital spokesman Jim Strader confirmed a patient meeting the description of the younger Sharclane was in the hospital\u2019s critical care unit but was in stable condition.<\/p>\n
JPD Thursday afternoon announced Nauska was arrested on the murder and attempted murder charges, as well as first- and third-degree assault and tampering with evidence. He was taken to Lemon Creek Correctional Center and held without bail.<\/p>\n
On Thursday afternoon, members of the Sharclane family \u2014 an Alaska Native family originally from Hoonah \u2014 gathered in the recreation room of the Mountain View senior living apartments to be together.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody is just in shock,\u201d said Myrna Brown, Jordan Sharclane\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n
Overwhelmed by grief, she sat on a couch in the room with a tissue in her lap. She was comforted on one side by her late son\u2019s mother-in-law and on the other side by his wife, Jenny, who was cradling her 3-month-old granddaughter, Gwendolyn. Jenny Sharclane said she and her husband have been together for 24 years and married for 16. They met in Juneau in 1999.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel immense hurt, but I feel the most hurt for the grandbabies,\u201d Brown said, wiping away tears. She was referring the five children and the three grandchildren her son leaves behind.<\/p>\n