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 weekly reports from the municipality’s third party oversight entity offer a small window into the conditions and challenges in Anchorage’s winter homeless shelters.
Twenty-one bills from nine legislators were released Friday morning in advance of the start of the 34th Legislature. Interior legislators did not file bills that were released Friday.
A candidate for Haines’ police chief position will be available at the Haines Public Library on Monday evening. Gregory Boris is one of the two remaining candidate for the position, the other is a man named Michael Greelee.