5 weeks after Coast Guard homicides, Kodiak knows little of investigation's progress
"There's very little we can say about the investigation," FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez said in the aftermath of the incident, adding that the integrity of the case was at stake.
The FBI has said the community of 6,300 some 250 miles south of Anchorage is not in danger, but has not said why, and residents remain perplexed.
"I think people are pretty confused on what's happening, or what's not happening," said Alf Pryor, an artist and commercial fisherman. "There's not very much information that has been shared, and lots of rumors."
He is not worried about his own safety, he said, but thinks others in Kodiak are.
"If there's no danger to the public, that would seem to indicate there's information out there that they could be sharing," he said.
Officially, for public consumption, there are no suspects or even a "person of interest" named by the FBI.
Unofficially, most everyone in Kodiak knows that a co-worker of the two dead men owns one such blue Honda CR-V, and a white Dodge pickup, another vehicle for which the FBI sought information.
The Kodiak Daily Mirror and KTUU-TV reported that authorities searched the home of the co-worker and his family, located south of the Coast Guard air station. No one in the home responded to questions shouted from outside last week by a KTUU-TV reporter.
The FBI has released no details about the weapon used in the shootings. However, last week agents made another appeal, seeking information from anyone in Alaska who sold, traded or transferred three models of .44 caliber revolvers in the last year.