A Washington state man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a woman in a Southeast Alaska village two years ago, Alaska State Troopers announced.
Isaac Friday, 27, of Waitsburg, is charged in the 2017 death of Jade Williams, 19, of Kake, a town of 600 on Kupreanof Island about 95 miles southwest of Juneau.
Deputies from the Walla Walla County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday arrested Friday in Dayton, Washington. Friday is in custody in the Walla Walla County jail with bail set at $500,000.
Alaska State Troopers on the night of Aug. 15, 2017, received a report that Williams had been found not breathing at her home in Kake. Emergency medical personnel transported her to a clinic and she was pronounced dead.
Weather prevented troopers from reaching the community until the next afternoon.
Troopers based in Juneau conducted the investigation.