20-year-old suspect arrested in violent murder of two 18-year-old women at Hooper Bay residence

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Images from the Facebook page of Shaq M. Carawan of Hooper Bay.

Last Wednesday, the bodies of two 18-year-old women were found in a Hooper Bay home. Now, a 20-year-old Hooper Bay man has been arrested and charged with the violent murder of Novely Rivers and Abigail Olson.

After an extensive investigation involving numerous agencies, Shaquille Carawan was arrested Saturday. He is charged with two counts of first-degree and second-degree murder in each death, plus single counts of tampering with evidence, controlled substance misconduct, and furnishing alcohol to minors in a dry community. The exact circumstances, including whether weapons were used, have not been reported by Troopers, who only described it as violent.

Facebook art showing Abigail Olson and Novely Rivers, the two women murdered in Hooper Bay. Suspect Shaq M. Carawan is now in custody.

The City of Hooper Bay had offered a $1,000 reward leading to the capture and indictment of the perpetrator. Carawan appears to be related to at least one of the victims. Carawan is now in the Yukon Kuskokwim Correctional Center. No information has yet been entered into the state court records.

Ten Troopers from the Alaska Bureau of Investigation and Western Alaska Patrol had responded to assist local law enforcement with the manhunt for the killer, who members of the community appeared to identify in advance of the man’s arrest.

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  1. It’s hard to imagine it being worse. We must pray for them all. Yahweh, please protect them in their rest, and those left behind in pain… and the perpetrator.

      • No, “they” don’t send their undesirables down here. They came for jobs, etc… but found a ready supply of alcohol. So, what about going after the shop keepers. You sound prejudiced toward the Native community so why not pack your bags & go back to your own people.

        • So is your claim they were forced into the liquor stores and forced to purchase alcohol at gunpoint or something, rather than responsibly saving their money for job hunting? We are talking about competent, autonomous, adult human beings of presumably normal intelligence, with agency and free will, right? Not children, or people who can’t be trusted to manage their own lives? Because it reads like you consider them incapable of living unsupervised, which seems a little dehumanizing and infantilizing, if not racist.

  2. Those native guys are a little rough on the ladies. I bet if you removed the native component from Alaska’s crimes against women statistics Alaskans would look like a bunch of choir boys.

    Instead, the white police have to catch him then the Elders will say he’s theirs to sentence and they’ll banish him from Hooper Bay to become another Anchorage sidewalk sleeper.

  3. Thank you Suzanne, for better reporting on this crime than the local MSM, who cleverly refused to post pics of the (alleged) murderer.
    He has a very smug and self satisfied look on his face.
    It was good to read that the community helped out the AST by quickly identifying him to the troopers even before they arrived.
    What a tragedy that two young women who were just beginning adulthood were taken away so young.

  4. It is very sad for the families loss of two young innocent victims at the hands of a very sick perverted individual with an evil agenda that goes completely unnoticed in such a small village.

    A tragedy that will linger for years to come.

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