A car parked adjacent trees.An Alaska State Troopers conveyance successful Bethel. (Elyssa Loughlin/KYUK)

A man from nan colony of Eek successful nan little Kuskokwim Delta has been arrested and charged pinch nan execution of a female aft a standoff pinch Alaska State Troopers connected Tuesday. 

Troopers opportunity 41-year-old Nick Beebe is charged pinch murder, assault, and weapons misconduct successful nan decease of 38-year-old Lorna White. As of midday Wednesday, charging documents were not disposable for Beebe. He remained successful custody astatine nan Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center successful Bethel connected Wednesday.

According to an online trooper dispatch, troopers responded to Eek aft Beebe allegedly threatened a colony nationalist information serviceman pinch a shotgun erstwhile nan serviceman tried to respond to a study of home violence. 

Troopers opportunity Beebe barricaded himself successful White’s residence pinch a gun, aft telling witnesses he had assaulted her and she was inside. But he reportedly refused to speak pinch negotiators aliases talk White’s condition. 

During nan standoff, an unnamed trooper changeable astatine Beebe from extracurricular nan residence, but troopers opportunity nan changeable did not onslaught Beebe. The trooper has been placed connected a three-day administrative leave, which is emblematic successful officer-involved shootings.

The troopers past called successful their Southcentral SWAT team, though it is unclear really overmuch clip passed betwixt earlier nan squad arrived. Troopers opportunity nan SWAT squad entered nan residence to apprehension Beebe.

When they entered nan house, nan dispatch says troopers recovered White dormant from “suspected blunt-force trauma.” Her assemblage has been sent to nan authorities aesculapian examiner, and her adjacent of kin person been notified.