Unalaska, AK – The Department of Public Safety has issued an official press release regarding last week's shootings. According to the release, when police spoke with 25-year-old Jason Tungul at the clinic at 5 am on July 1, he initially reported that he had been shot by an unknown person while working at the Crowley facility. Before being transported to Anchorage for treatment of extensive wounds, he changed his story. Police report that Tungul said that the shooting had taken place at 25-year-old Daniel Cortez's residence at about 1:30 that morning. "Tungul said he believed that Cortez might have shot him because he had refused to smoke 'oxy' with Cortez, and Cortez might have believed Tungul was a 'snitch'."

Using this information, police obtained an arrest warrant for Cortez and a search warrant for his home. When they attempted to serve these warrants at 9 am, they found Cortez on the floor of his home with a wound on his head. He was medevac'ed to Anchorage and died that evening. Initial investigation supports that Cortez died of a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the head, but final determination is pending further investigation. The Department of Public Safety is continuing to investigate all of the events of July 1, 2009.