Anchorage police fatally shoot armed man after Fairview shots-fired call

An Anchorage Police patrol conveyance is parked extracurricular nan Anchorage Police Department Headquarters connected a sunny outpouring time successful early May 2021. (Hannah Lies/Alaska Public Media)

A man Anchorage constabulary were trying to detain successful Fairview Monday nighttime was fatally changeable by officers erstwhile they opportunity he pulled retired a gun, marking nan 3rd man changeable by constabulary successful little than a month.

According to an Anchorage Police Department statement, officers had responded astatine astir 9:30 p.m. Monday to reports of shots fired adjacent Eaat 19th Avenue and Karluk Street. When officers arrived, personification successful nan area told them 2 men successful a parking batch connected East 19th adjacent nan Anchorage Senior Center were involved.

Police said pinch nan men, nan first of whom complied pinch them and was taken into custody. Police opportunity he was equipped pinch a handgun.

“(The 2nd man) was not compliant,” constabulary said successful nan statement. “As he reached into his clothing a K-9 was deployed. While nan K-9 had clasp of (the man, he) produced a handgun and ignored aggregate commands to driblet it. Three officers discharged their weapons, striking (him) successful nan precocious body.”

The changeable man was declared dormant astatine nan scene, constabulary said. He hasn’t yet been named. None of nan officers aliases nan K-9 were injured.

Under constabulary policy, nan officers who fired connected nan man will beryllium named successful 3 days and person been placed connected administrative time off for 4 days. The authorities Office of Special Prosecutions will analyse nan shooting for immoderate violations of authorities law, aft which APD Internal Affairs will analyse nan shooting for immoderate violations of constabulary policy.

The shooting comes conscionable weeks aft the May 13 death of different equipped man changeable by officers. Kristopher Handy’s shooting extracurricular a Sand Lake flat analyzable has prompted accrued scrutiny of constabulary and calls for nan merchandise of officers’ body-camera footage, aft surveillance video of nan shooting contradicted an first declare by APD Chief Designee Bianca Cross that he had raised a weapon astatine nan officers who opened fire.

Over nan weekend, officers besides shot and wounded a execution fishy successful nan moments aft a fatal shooting early Saturday extracurricular a downtown bar. Kaleb Bourdukofsky, 22, is charged pinch killing 25-year-old Diego Joy and wounding a 2nd man successful that shooting.

Police had held a news convention earlier Monday connected nan Saturday shooting, conscionable hours earlier nan brushwood successful Fairview. The section is readying to clasp different news convention connected nan latest shooting astatine a early date.