{"id":3144,"date":"2017-10-26T23:52:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T06:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/man-shot-dead-at-logging-camp\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T06:52:25","slug":"man-shot-dead-at-logging-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-shot-dead-at-logging-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot dead at logging camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

A logging camp employee shot dead a fellow worker at a Prince of Wales Island camp on Wednesday, Alaska State Troopers say.<\/p>\n

Ketchikan resident Timothy Murphy, 26, confessed to the homicide of Brian Stanton, 64, also of Ketchikan, according to a Thursday AST <\/a>release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At about 6:16 a.m. Wednesday, AST received a call from the Phoenix Logging camp on Prince of Wales Island that Stanton was dead due to a gunshot. Murphy had made multiple incriminating statements to employees of the logging camp, located about 15 air miles from the village of Hydaburg at Keete Inlet.<\/p>\n

AST responded to the call via an Alaska Wildlife Trooper vessel from the AST post in Craig, arriving on scene at about 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Troopers stayed at the scene overnight to continue the investigation.<\/p>\n

When reached by phone Thursday, AST spokesperson Tim DeSpain said any motive to the apparent homicide is still part of an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n

“Basically, all I can confirm was that it was reported to troopers by other employees there that he (Murphy) was making incriminating statements and confessing,” DeSpain said.<\/p>\n

Murphy has been charged with first-degree murder<\/a> and held at the Craig Jail. Electronic documents show the charges were filed at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Prince of Wales Courthouse under Judge David V. George.<\/p>\n

Stanton’s family has been notified of the death.<\/p>\n

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• Contact reporter Kevin Gullufsen at 523-2228 or kevin.gullufsen@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n

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