Anchorage police arrest second suspect in man’s 2022 murder outside Spenard home

A constabulary vehicle’s emergency lights flash bluish and red. (Valerie Lake/Alaska Public Media)

A 20-year-old man was arrested Thursday successful South Anchorage, becoming nan 2nd fishy successful nan fatal shooting of a man astir 2 years agone during a Spenard dispute.

Police said successful a little statement Friday that SWAT officers arrested Vincent Sandifer precocious Thursday nighttime connected first-degree and second-degree execution charges astatine a location connected nan 1200 artifact of West Dimond Boulevard. Detectives had linked Sandifer to nan November 2022 shooting of Brad Robert connected Chugach Way, aft Anthony Tinker III, 30, was initially charged pinch nan crime.

Police spokeswoman Amanda Brimanis said Friday that Sandifer was taken into custody without incident aliases immoderate usage of force.

No further specifications were instantly disposable astir Sandifer’s engagement successful nan crime.

A charging archive from 2022 against Tinker, nan first man charged successful nan case, lays retired what constabulary opportunity happened. According to charges, Robert and his woman Maryann Schneider heard a conflict extracurricular their trailer location astatine astir 1 a.m. connected Nov. 11, 2022. Schneider said successful an interview soon afterward that Robert stepped outside, but was changeable arsenic he tried to thief and died moments later.

Police initially took Tinker into custody a fewer days later aft a reported carjacking and a standoff pinch police.

Investigators didn’t nexus nan 2 cases until 2 relatives of Tinker’s told them they were pinch him extracurricular Robert’s trailer during nan shooting and said he had pulled nan trigger.

Court records show Tinker still awaiting trial, pursuing a January competency proceeding successful nan execution lawsuit against him.

Charging documents for Sandifer weren’t instantly disposable Friday morning. He is successful custody astatine nan Anchorage Correctional Complex.

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