Nunam Iqua Man receives a 10-year prison sentence for the death of the woman during snowmaking

A man from the municipality of Lower Yukon River in Nunam Iqua was sentenced to a 10 -year -old prison to die a woman he said that soldiers from Alaska fell from his snow machine.

The twenty-six-year-old Fredrick Abraham was initially arrested in March 2024 and was charged with a second degree and several charges for the death of 30-year-old Joan Camille of the second degree. According to court documents, Abraham had lived in Nunam Iqua at the time of her death.

An affidavit of the investigation showed that Camille at some point with Abraham after Nunam Iqua through a snow machine died by a shopping stroll in the nearby community of Emonak on March 15, 2024. In the early morning, Abraham appeared in Nunam Iqua the next morning and reported Camille's death to her family.

Abraham said Troopers that Camille fell from his snow machine when he traveled with a high speed rate. Abraham told the Troopers that his snow machine got stuck at some point after the fall of Camille and he got at the scene until he found that she would die. At that time he returned to Nunam Iqua on foot.

Soldiers say that the first examination of inconsistencies between Abraham's report on events and physical evidence along the way between Emonak and Nunam Iqua found. An autopsy of the state medical examination office showed that Camiles face and head, “did not violate the fall of a snow machine regardless of the speed of the vehicle”.

On April 16, Abraham was guilty of a criminal murder agreement through a plea contract. The judge of Bethel Superior Court, Nathaniel Peters, sentenced Abraham to 10 years in prison.