APD Seeks Witness and Person of Interest in Wednesday Spenard Homicide

Homicide Person of Interest in Spenard Shooting. He was last seen traveling through the alleyway between 36th and 33rd. Image-APD
Homicide Person of Interest in Spenard Shooting. He was last seen traveling through the alleyway between 36th and 33rd. Image-APD

APD is seeing ththe man seen in the image as a witness in Wednesday's Spenard homicide. Image-APD
APD is seeking the man seen in this image as a witness in Wednesday’s Spenard homicide. Image-APD

Anchorage police say that they believe the Wednesday evening homicide that took the life of an adult female, whose identity has yet to be revealed, was a drug related incident. The shooting took place on the 1800-block of West 36th Avenue, police reported.

When police responded to the scene at Oregon and 36th  after a shots-fired report, they discovered an adult female laying in a yard, and had suffered gunshot wounds at the scene. She was declared deceased at that Spenard location.

APD is actively seeking two people in the incident, one a witness, who was seen walking with the now deceased woman prior to her death. He was was last seen walking along 36th toward Minnesota Drive. The other, an individual police are calling a person of interest, was driving a motorcycle, and was last seen departing the scene via the allyway between Oregon and Wyoming Avenues headed toward 33rd Avenue.

Police have released imagary of both the witness and the person of interest.

APD is asking the public for any information, “including surveillance video, regarding these two males, please call APD Dispatch at 786-8900 (press “0” to speak with an operator).  To remain anonymous you may contact Crime Stoppers at 561-STOP or online at www.anchoragecrimestoppers.com.[xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense-responsive”]