Argument ends in gunfire

WASILLA — Alaska State Troopers say a drunken argument over drywall supplies left a man with a shotgun wound to the belly early Monday morning.

According to an affidavit Trooper Duane Leventry filed in the case against Kenneth Goldsbury, 53, of Wasilla, the call to respond to the Roadside Inn came at 12:23 a.m. Monday.

On scene, Leventry wrote that he talked to Goldsbury who said another man, Marvin Long, had been upset that Goldsbury had used some drywalling supplies without asking permission.

At the inn’s bar, they started arguing about the supplies, Goldsbury told Leventry.

Goldsbury told the trooper that eventually he left the bar and went back to his room. Long came over and started beating on his door.

Goldsbury told Leventry he grabbed his 12-guage shotgun from under the bed and fired birdshot through the door. Leventry said he examined the gun and found the next two rounds loaded were slugs.

“Goldsbury stated that he was not trying to kill Long, he only wanted Long to stop beating on his door and go away. Goldsbury also stated that if Long was on the other side of the door and got shot then that’s what he deserved,” Leventry wrote in his affidavit.

Leventry said he then went two doors down to talk to Long in his room.

“Long stated that he went to Goldsbury’s door, knocked on it, and was shot almost instantly,” Leventry wrote.

Long was taken to Mat-Su Regional Medical Center with stomach wounds troopers described as non-life-threatening.

Leventry breathalyzed both men, coming up with a .170 breath alcohol content for Long and a .245 breath alcohol content for Goldsbury. The legal limit for driving is .08.

Goldsbury was jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility on $5,000 bail and charged with assault, weapons misconduct and criminal mischief.

Prison records late Monday afternoon showed Goldsbury was still incarcerated. A call seeking comment at the inn Monday yielded no one willing to speak about the incident.