ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) -A Jewel Lake shooting victim’s condition remained unknown Sunday, after Anchorage police said the adult man were transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries Saturday night. A suspect, police said, was also taken into custody Saturday.
Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case provided updates Wednesday to the two officer-involved shootings that took place on back-to-back days during the second week of the new year.
The municipality on Thursday released a third-party review into the shooting death of Easter Leafa, a 16-year-old high school student killed by Anchorage police officers in August. The review recommended changes to the way the Anchorage Police Department operates, ranging from call dispatching to supervision to training.
Two men shot by Anchorage police last week in two separate instances ... APD Captain Amanda Fisher, who heads the department’s detective division, provided an update on both shootings.
Both the suspect and the homeowner survived their gunshot wounds, police said. The shooting was the second involving police in 24 hours.
A consultant hired by Anchorage’s municipal attorney has nearly a dozen recommendations to improve police de-escalation and use of force policies, after officers fatally shot a local teenager last year.
Police say a woman with tape around her wrists and mouth fled the location of the robbery and alerted someone at a nearby business.
Anchorage, AK, — A woman originally from the Oswego County area has been missing for several months in Alaska, her family and police say. Kelsey Thomas, 33, was reported missing on Jan. 1, according to a news release by the Anchorage Police Department Saturday. Her last known location was in Anchorage, Alaska, according to her family.
In Alaska, where the time to resolve most serious felony cases has nearly tripled over the past decade, one case was delayed so long that both victims died. A former prosecutor called it “a travesty of justice.
The mother of a 21-year-old who died after being shot more than a dozen times forgave one of the men charged in his death during a sentencing hearing, Alaska prosecutors said. The
An Anchorage man shot by police last week as he fled an armed robbery in Midtown was wearing an ankle monitor for a prior charge that he robbed a Spenard restaurant at gunpoint last year, according to police and court records.
Thousands of residents across Alaska’s largest city remain without power Monday, a day after a powerful storm brought hurricane-force winds that downed power lines and caused a pedestrian bridge over a highway to partially collapse.