Anchorage police say that they successfully took a suspect into custody after an almost 4-hour standoff that occurred in a hotel room at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage’s downtown district on Friday. 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue between K Street and I Street was closed down after APD was notified and responded to the […]
Anchorage police responded to reports of threats made by a man later identified as 35-year-old Tyler P. Merritt at 9:28 pm Sunday night on Campbell Airstrip Road off of Tudor. Merritt was located shortly after 11 pm barricaded in a vehicle a couple miles up Campbell Airstrip Road. This resulted in a large police presence […]
The stand-off between homicide suspect, 34-year-old Devyn Walker, and the Alaska State Trooper Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT), ended less than optimally, when SERT made entry, searched the Holy Cross home only to find the suspect dead from an apparent gunshot wound. Walker’s remains were sent to the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage for […]
Alaska State Troopers say that a suspect in a death investigation is in an ongoing barricade situation in Holy Cross. Troopers were notified of a disturbance in Holy Cross at 6:36 pm on Tuesday and Bethel-based troopers immediately deployed to the village via state aircraft. The initial investigation opened upon their arrival found one individual […]