Kotlik
CRIME & SAFETY
Kotlik man sentenced to 6 years for homicide
A Kotlik man has been sentenced to serve six years in prison after pleading guilty to criminally negligent homicide for shooting a man in the lower Yukon village in 2021. According to a sentencing document filed in Bethel Superior Court, Kotlik resident Ralph John Waska shot 49-year-old Yago Pitka twice with a shotgun in mid-April 2021.
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