Anchorage police identify man fatally shot by officers in Fairview as a 21-year-old

Anchorage Police main designee Bianca Cross speaks astatine a property convention astatine APD office connected June 5, 2024. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media)

Anchorage constabulary person identified nan man fatally changeable by officers Monday arsenic 21-year-old Tyler May. 

May’s personality was among a fewer further specifications astir nan shooting released by Anchorage constabulary main designee Bianca Cross astatine a news convention Wednesday.  

Cross said constabulary were responding to a study of shots fired Monday nighttime successful nan parking batch of nan Anchorage Senior Activity Center successful Fairview. She said officers instructed nan 2 equipped men location to driblet their weapons.

“One antheral followed orders and was contacted and detained astatine nan scene,” Cross said. “The 2nd antheral big continued to locomotion distant from officers. K9 was deployed and made interaction pinch nan 2nd suspect.”

Cross said May, nan 2nd suspect, pulled retired a handgun arsenic nan K9 was biting him and he was connected nan ground. Three officers changeable astatine May, sidesplitting him. All 3 were wearing assemblage cameras. 

Cross said she’s seen some, but not each of nan assemblage camera footage of nan incident. She said it’s not clear why May was shooting his weapon successful nan parking batch successful first place. 

“I can’t springiness you an nonstop logic why,” Cross said.

She said May and nan different man “were astatine slightest acquainted pinch each different and had travel from a adjacent residence.”

The different man detained by officers was not charged, and constabulary person wished that only May had been firing his weapon, according to Cross.

This is nan 3rd clip successful little than a period that Anchorage officers person changeable an equipped man during a constabulary response.

Last month, officers fatally changeable 34-year-old Kristopher Handy while responding to a study of a home dispute. Early Saturday, officers shot and injured 22-year-old Kaleb Bourdukofsky aft he allegedly changeable 2 men downtown, sidesplitting one. Cross said nan 3 incidents aren’t connected.

“They each look to beryllium isolated incidents, and each nan group that were progressive had weapons connected them,” Cross said. “We don’t dictate what nan circumstances are. We simply respond to nan calls and we move connected from there.”

Like successful nan first 2 shootings, Cross said nan assemblage camera footage from Monday nighttime will beryllium released aft a authorities Office of Special Prosecutions investigation and an soul APD investigation.