State troopers arrested a Kake man last week after he sat in a Chevrolet pickup truck and sprayed semi-automatic gunfire into a construction site trailer with eight people inside, leaving no one hospitalized or shot.
Jacob Hallingstad, 46, was arrested on Thursday in connection to the shooting in Kake. Nine charges were doled to him at a felony first hearing in Petersburg over the weekend, to which he teleconferenced from the Lemon Creek Correctional Center in Juneau.
Sgt. Nicholas Zito with the Alaska State Troopers filed a report into court documents based on interviews with witnesses and the troopers’ investigation of the scene.
The report said eight people were inside a SECON Construction camp trailer before troopers were called at about 12:53 a.m. on Thursday. Most of the group was awake in the dining area past midnight. Among them was Hallingstad’s wife, Melissa. She stopped by the trailer after seeing the party, according to the report.
Soon after, Hallingstad entered the trailer and kicked one of the men near Melissa in the chest. The man allegedly assaulted did not retaliate and Hallingstad left. He returned minutes later with a rifle, which he would later tell Zito was a black Bushmaster AR-15 with a collapsible stock. He shot toward the trailer from the driver’s side of a black Chevrolet truck.
The bullets shattered a window and laced the siding. At least three rounds made it through the wall and into the dining area and kitchen, hitting no one.
One witness said when the rapid “pop, pop” sound rang out, he froze before dropping to the ground with the rest of the group. Another witness said he grabbed a rifle soon after and went outside to defend the trailer, but Hallingstad was gone, court documents said.
Hallingstad disputed the allegations early in the investigation, saying
six crew members threatened him before he “grabbed his hunting rifle and shot back at him,” according to the trooper report. In a later interview with police, Hallingstad said he “shot back at the SECON crew from his truck.”
Hallingstad, who Magistrate Judge Desiree Burrell said grew up in Petersburg, faces six counts of assault in the third degree, one count of assault in the fourth degree, one count of criminal mischief and one count of misconduct involving weapons. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for October 16 in Petersburg, Burrell said.
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