The suspect in a fatal downtown assault was arrested Friday afternoon by Juneau Police Department officers.<\/p>\n
David Valentine Evenson, 51, was taken into custody at about 1:45 p.m. Friday and has been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, JPD Lt. Kris Sell said in a press release.<\/p>\n
“We had been knocking on doors and talking to people all over town,” Sell said, adding that officers had been encouraging Evenson’s friends to tell him to turn himself in.<\/p>\n
Evenson called JPD Friday and arranged to be picked up, she said. He was taken to Lemon Creek Correctional Center, where he is being held without bail.<\/p>\n
It is not clear which criminal charge will actually be filed by the District Attorney, which likely will depend on autopsy results; Sell said evidence still is coming in on the case.<\/p>\n
JPD had been searching for Evenson since the June 30 <\/a>assault<\/a>, and ramped up their search after the victim, Aaron G. Monette, died on July 4 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.<\/p>\n According to police, JPD received a report about the assault at just before 1 p.m. June 30, that Evenson had kicked Monette, 56, in the head near the Downtown Transit Center.<\/p>\n Both Capital City Fire\/Rescue and police officers were dispatched to the scene and found Monette lying on the ground unconscious. The suspect reportedly had fled the scene prior to the officers’ arrival.<\/p>\n Monette was transported to Bartlett Regional Hospital by ambulance; he was later medically evacuated to Harborview Medical Center for advanced trauma treatment, where he died July 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The suspect in a fatal downtown assault was arrested Friday afternoon by Juneau Police Department officers. David Valentine Evenson, 51, was taken into custody at about 1:45 p.m. Friday and has been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, JPD Lt. Kris Sell said in a press release. “We had been knocking on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31424"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}