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Sitka man arrested after shooting on fishing boat

Sitka police arrested a 35-year-old man accused of shooting a man on a fishing boat Saturday. Police in the Southeast Alaska city were called to a commercial fishing boat in Eliason Harbor at 5:40 p.m. on Saturday on a report that a man had been shot, the Sitka Police Department said in a statement. On the boat, officers found a man with a gunshot wound to the thigh and “blunt force trauma” to his head. The extent of the man‘s injuries was not clear Sunday. >click to read<08:56