3 men charged in Anchorage woman’s cold-case shooting

An Anchorage constabulary conveyance astatine a crime segment (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media).

Three men now look execution charges successful nan shooting decease of an Anchorage female astir 3 years ago.

Court records show Neville Herndon, 42; Claymonte Otero, 24; and Myron Clark, 30, each charged pinch first-degree murder, 2 counts of second-degree execution and 3 counts of first-degree battle successful nan decease of 28-year-old Alexandra Briseno.

According to an first constabulary statement, Briseno’s assemblage was recovered early connected Nov. 26, 2021 – nan time aft Thanksgiving – erstwhile officers responded to a shots-fired telephone connected nan 3100 artifact of Cheechako Street, successful a residential area disconnected West Benson Boulevard. Officers besides recovered a man pinch gunshot wounds, who was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Few further specifications were disposable this week astir nan men charged.

An indictment against nan men, returned Thursday by a expansive jury, lists astir 2 twelve hunt warrants and six witnesses consulted arsenic evidence. It does not explicate really aliases why Briseno was shot, aliases what led constabulary to nan 3 men.

State prosecutors declined to comment.

Anchorage TV position Alaska’s News Source reported Monday that Herndon and Otero pleaded not blameworthy during an first tribunal appearance, pinch Otero appearing by phone. Briseno’s mother said she was “grateful and relieved” that constabulary had made advancement successful nan case.

Herndon is being held astatine nan Cook Inlet Pretrial Facility successful Anchorage, while Otero is being held astatine nan Spring Creek Correctional Facility adjacent Seward. Clark is not successful custody, and tribunal records show an apprehension warrant pinch a full bail of $300,000 issued for him Thursday.