[Vision2020] Quiet and Peaceful Wasilla, Alaska

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman (Wasilla, Alaska) at:

http://tinyurl.com/dxo9z4
 
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Argument ends in gunfire
By Andrew Wellner, Frontiersman

WASILLA — Alaska State Troopers say a drunken argument over drywall 
supplies left a man with a shotgun wound to the belly early Monday morning.

According to an affidavit Trooper Duane Leventry filed in the case against 
Kenneth Goldsbury, 53,  of Wasilla, the call to respond to the Roadside 
Inn came at 12:23 a.m. Monday.

On scene, Leventry wrote that he talked to Goldsbury who said another man, 
Marvin Long, had been upset that Goldsbury had used some drywalling 
supplies without asking permission.

At the inn’s bar, they started arguing about the supplies, Goldsbury told 
Leventry.

Goldsbury told the trooper that eventually he left the bar and went back 
to his room. Long came over and started beating on his door.

Goldsbury told Leventry he grabbed his 12-guage shotgun from under the bed 
and fired birdshot through the door. Leventry said he examined the gun and 
found the next two rounds loaded were slugs.

“Goldsbury stated that he was not trying to kill Long, he only wanted Long 
to stop beating on his door and go away. Goldsbury also stated that if 
Long was on the other side of the door and got shot then that’s what he 
deserved,” Leventry wrote in his affidavit.

Leventry said he then went two doors down to talk to Long in his room.

“Long stated that he went to Goldsbury’s door, knocked on it, and was shot 
almost instantly,” Leventry wrote.

Long was taken to Mat-Su Regional Medical Center with stomach wounds 
troopers described as non-life-threatening.

Leventry breathalyzed both men, coming up with a .170 breath alcohol 
content for Long and a .245 breath alcohol content for Goldsbury. The 
legal limit for driving is .08.

Goldsbury was jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility on $5,000 bail and 
charged with assault, weapons misconduct and criminal mischief.

Prison records late Monday afternoon showed Goldsbury was still 
incarcerated. A call seeking comment at the inn Monday yielded no one 
willing to speak about the incident.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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