Juneau’s city manager described the shooting as a tragedy, and the chief of police called it a “regretful event for all involved.”
Steve Kissack, a 35-year-old homeless man shot by police after allegedly rushing at officers while brandishing a knife, is remembered in a makeshift shrine in downtown Juneau on Tuesday.
Soaked by rain, Kissack walks forward with one hand up, as he holds “a good-sized knife” in his right hand, Gamez Escalante said. Juneau residents remember Steve Kissack, who was shot and killed by police, at a downtown memorial on Tuesday. A shrine set up for Steve Kissack on the site of where he regularly slept with dog Juno in downtown Juneau is seen Tuesday.
But Perkins said Kissack did not fit well into “existing systems” and at one time or another had been asked to leave most of Juneau’s shelters. Dave Ringle, executive director of St. Vincent de Paul in Juneau, echoed Perkins’ description of Kissack.Several of Kissack’s meetings with Juneau police prior to Monday’s fatal shooting saw him brandish a knife and threaten officers, police said.”I was afraid that I was about to be seriously injured or killed,” Sgt.
Pastor Perkins organized the vigil and said it was important to give Kissack “the same level of honor that we would give anybody else — despite the fact that his community was more dispersed.”
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