Kyle Wassillie was 26 when he was shot and killed in Napaskiak, Alaska, during the night that bled into the morning of July 30, 2017. He had been visiting from Nunapitchuk and had been drinking; witnesses and scene details described large, drained vodka bottles, an empty rifle casing by his body, and a rifle in the kitchen. A 9-year-old at the house told a responding village public safety officer that his older brother had shot a man. Wassillie was found in the entryway with a bullet through his chest and stomach and died about an hour after the shots.

Alaska State Troopers arrested 19-year-old Adam Williams that same day and charged him with first-degree murder. Prosecutors said witnesses saw Williams fire into Wassillie while intoxicated and that more than one shot was fired. At trial the defense argued Williams acted in self-defense after a confrontation; the jury acquitted Williams of first- and second-degree murder on January 15, 2020. Wassillie’s family remembered him as a hunter and woodcutter whose smile could fill a room.

Does anyone remember details from Napaskiak or Nunapitchuk that could shed light on that July night or the people present?