A young man wielding a 5-inch knife stabbed four people to death in Sitka yesterday before officers subdued him with a stun gun.

Police took 18-year-old Jason Abbott to the jail where he is awaiting charges

Police Chief Sheldon Schmitt says officers found the bodies of three people just before noon at a two-story home just two blocks from the police station.

A fourth person found in the house later died at a hospital.

Police did not release their identities.

Investigators with the state crime lab in Anchorage have flown to the city of 9,000 people to help Sitka police.

Police say Abbott had been arrested Sunday on a domestic violence charge.

(Associated Press)