ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two people were stabbed and wounded outside a remote Alaska village school by a man armed with a knife and shouting threats who tried to break in to the building, officials said Monday.Students and staff at the school had to wait more than 45 minutes for law enforcement officers last Friday as the event unfolded in the Yupik Eskimo village of Kotlik, a community of 640.Two villagers attempted to intervene and the man with the knife stabbed both of them, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement.When the knife fell from the man’s hand, one of the injured people grabbed the knife and threw it into a pond. Two other villagers then subdued former student Rick Andrews, 19, the statement said. He is charged with three counts of felony assault.The incident underscores dangers in rural Alaska communities without a tax base to support local law enforcement.
Police: 2 stabbed at Alaska school during break-in attempt