{"id":7359,"date":"2016-05-30T08:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T15:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/no-criminal-charges-filed-in-north-slope-police-shooting\/"},"modified":"2016-05-30T08:01:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T15:01:26","slug":"no-criminal-charges-filed-in-north-slope-police-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/no-criminal-charges-filed-in-north-slope-police-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"No criminal charges filed in North Slope police shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BARROW \u2014 <\/strong>The Alaska attorney general\u2019s office will not file criminal charges against a police officer who fatally shot a Barrow man.<\/p>\n<p>The state has found North Slope Police Sgt. James Michels justified in the shooting of 36-year-old Barrow volunteer fire chief Vincent Nageak III in February, KTUU-TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Nageak was intoxicated and threatening Michels and Officer Anthony Fonua with a shotgun at the time of the shooting, according to a May 19 report by Robert Henderson, supervising assistant attorney general. An autopsy determined Nageak\u2019s blood alcohol level was 0.172 at that time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSgt. Michels was legally justified in using deadly force to stop Mr. Nageak. Equally, Sgt. Michels was legally justified in using deadly force to defend Officer Fonua,\u201d Henderson concluded.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the incident occurred after officers were called to Nageak\u2019s home Feb. 10 about a domestic disturbance. Nageak\u2019s wife and children inside were evacuated before Nageak reportedly threatened to shoot and racked his shotgun, meaning he cycled a round through the gun\u2019s firing chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Nageak reportedly said \u201cget ready to shoot\u201d before exiting a room. Michels fired four rounds, striking Nageak with three.<\/p>\n<p>Michels told investigators he feared for Fonua, who was directly in the line of fire.<\/p>\n<p>Nageak\u2019s father, Roy Nageak, said his family is working to forgive Michels for the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re grieving. We trying to decide how to deal with it,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat is done is done. Nothing will bring our son back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARROW \u2014 The Alaska attorney general\u2019s office will not file criminal charges against a police officer who fatally shot a Barrow man. The state has found North Slope Police Sgt. James Michels justified in the shooting of 36-year-old Barrow volunteer fire chief Vincent Nageak III in February, KTUU-TV reported. Nageak was intoxicated and threatening Michels [&hellip;]<\/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":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359","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=7359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7359"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}