Thirty-year-old Jayson Vinberg of Kodiak is dead after he brought a knife to a gunfight, so to speak, at a Navy SEAL training center on Kodiak Island.
Vinberg entered the Naval Special Warfare Detachment Kodiak compound on Saturday and tapped on the guardhouse window with a knife. He was advised by the duty officer to leave the premises, but when the duty officer left his post to make sure Vinberg was actually leaving, Vinberg came at him with the knife.
Vinberg failed to obey repeated commends to stop walking toward the guard. The officer pulled out his firearm and shot Vinberg, who was soon declared dead by medics.
The investigation is being conducted as a joint investigation between Alaska Bureau of Investigation and Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The duty officer’s name won’t be released until after consultation with the Alaska US Attorney’s Office and Naval Criminal Investigative Unit is complete.
The compound is a 55-acre site used for cold-weather training by U.S. Navy SEALS, an elite fighting force.
Vinberg was not a registered voter in Alaska, nor did he apply for a Permanent Fund dividend in 2019. He has ties to Utah, although he appears to have attended Kodiak High School and worked in tire shops in Utah in the past. No motive or explanation has been released for his behavior.
File photo: Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus observes training at Naval Special Warfare Center Detachment Kodiak. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Sam Shavers/Released)
Abuse of power. Fully or semi automatic weapons against a guy with a knife was uncalled for. Should have buried a Kbar instead. I joke.
Well…… someones gotta say it, I hope he wasn’t black…..and no I’m not a racist.
No, someone didn’t have to say it. You just thought it was clever, but you were wrong. Also worth noting: if you have to say you’re not a racist, you’re probably a racist. It doesn’t matter what color this guy was because he was asking for it.
Yeah. This reminds me of the “perfect” poster slogan that we see some of the protesters carrying.
“Silence is violence”.
If you don’t speak up, you’re doing violence against some protected group that is beyond criticism.
If you do speak up but disagree with the violent protesters, you’re a racist, or some such nonsense.
If you do speak up and do agree with the protesters, you’re sanctioning violence, lawlessness, looting, arson, as well as racism. How many of the protesters have a “thing” against Whitey? Said another way – who do they blame for their perceived problems?
Lots of people have lots of problems. You don’t have to be perfect yourself before you identify you’ve been wronged by someone else. And you don’t have to be totally right before your countrymen should listen to your concerns. The point is that a whole class of folks in this country have been systemically marginalized for years. Then we white folks go thinking it’s about us — they must hate whitey. Get a grip snowflake. We have all the privilege. As a white male, I have zero concerns. Add my education and my professional status, and demographically I’m just about as untouchable as a middle class person can be. But if I was black? I’d still be nervous when a cop pulls up behind me, not because I’m more likely to be a criminal, but because the cop is more likely to be a white person that mainly knows black culture through stereotypes that they either don’t trust or are scared of. I’ve been all over this country and the divide is real, and it’s a relic that goes back to our beginning. How hard is it to show compassion and empathy? If only there a book… a person from history… that modeled that for us.
So now if a person says he isn’t a racist, according to you he is. That’s not how it works here. Maybe in Seattle or some other craphole place.
That’s dumb, because I’m here as much as you claim to be. I was tapping into the same logic behind the idea that you should be suspicious of someone that says they aren’t a liar. I think if you say something that makes you feel you have to add you aren’t a racist, then what you’re saying is “if I was racist, then what I’m saying would sound racist, but I’m not racist, so this isn’t a racist statement.” The truth is that if you aren’t racist them you really don’t need to tell folks — it shows in what you say and how you behave.
You’re a Kafka-trapper. Saw it right off. Got any Kulaks to Holomodor commisar?
No, just the opposite.To a Leftist, if you say you’re not a racist, it’s proof that you are.
If you say nothing -(like silence is violence) you’re a racist as well.
Found the raging SJW completely lacking ANY sense of humor or proportion.
He was a kid from Kodiak that was handled by the court system since he was twelve or thirteen for minor in possession…
of tobacco.
May have been other problems but that’s all that shows up on CourtView.
Whomever that judge was he could probably teach a lot to our limp wristed panty sporting cuckolds. Should’ve had that dude for Clayton Charlie or the FAA choke and spank guy and a host of others. Maybe rent him out for sentencing people that like to loot and mourn at the same time.
But you just had to go there and make it racist.
Are you suggesting something isn’t about race? You sound like you are swimming in privilege there buddy.
He was dumb enough the mess with SEALS so there you go. Suicide more than likely.
Play stupid games… win stupid prizes.
I feel for the family, but if you play in traffic, you’re gonna get hit.
As it was a Naval Base, Vinberg was declared dead by Corpsmen, not medics.
Good marksmanship can do that.
Typical “suicide by “cop”“ Stunt. Unfortunately, it can take a mental toll of taking a life on the shooter. Hopefully this is explained to the military policeman, he had no choice in the manner.
My thought as well.
I don’t get it… there is a FB profile that looks like it is his and he looks like a normal young fellow with family pictures and normal looking friends. Nothing radical on it….this is so sad.
Raise your glass to Jayson the Knife
Who fought the SEALs and lost his life.
Not so smart but oh so brave,
Darwin’s fittest to an early grave…
Story’s moral might be this
Don’t fight the SEALs when blindly pissed.
That is good!
Seriously, this man has two kids that left behind. And no question about how he got on a secured naval base to begin with? But please watch the comments and have respect for the family of this man.
I never knew we had a SEAL training facility there. Now I do great OSEC/COMSE
Prime candidate for a Darwin award.
It does sound, tragically, like the ‘suicide by cop’ scenario. The guy likely was dealing with something and may have had depression. Scary but sad and although he’s now gone the shooter is affected, as well as the shooter’s family and the family of the deceased. Awful.
Unfortunate, but the young man was told to leave, to stop. What did he think they were going to do? He committed suicide by a cop.
I pray for the security detail as this is quite traumatic.
Pretty sure SEALS, aka assassins, are trained to not be bothered with taking a life.
Do you think this is the whole story? Coming from someone that knows this man personally, I’m going to say no evidence of suicide. But let’s talk about how this man got on a “secure base”. I don’t know, and I don’t know if I believe this story as Jayson was not a violent man. This is such a sad situation and he has left behind two young boys who will one day be able to view crappy comments on the article that talks about their father being murdered on a naval base. I would like to see some sort of video or something because this is just odd.
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