Not much new happens in this sleepy little southeast Alaska fishing community, and the locals seem to like it that way. But a call to 911 last week ruined their sense of peace.A man on a cell phone directed officials to a home where there was a "guy outside stabbing people." The dispatcher heard screaming in the background.
By the time police arrived, three people were dead inside the house, and two more lay outside bleeding; only one would survive. Police don't have a motive for the attacks, the city's first slayings since 1996.
Jason Alex Abbott, a gaunt 18-year-old with a shaved head, has been charged with four counts of murder, accused of using a dagger to kill his grandparents, an aunt and her fiance.
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