(Anchorage, AK) – Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General John Skidmore met with reporters to discuss how the Office of Special Prosecutions in the Alaska Law Department reviews officer-involved shooting cases. There have been nine officer-involved shootings in Alaska in 2024, five of them in Anchorage since May. “The Office of Special Prosecutions’ review of use-of-deadly-force incidents […]
Alaska State Troopers in Wasilla were alerted to a fight in progress between two men at a Stacy Street address at 1:13 am on Wednesday morning and immediately responded to the scene. When they arrived, they found one of the men involved outside with the person who called in the complaint. They detained that man […]
While on patrol in the Cherokee and Ravenwood Avenue area on Thursday afternoon Fairbanks-based AST officers identified 20-year-old Patrick Alexander walking down the road. AST also observed Alexander concealing a long gun. The troopers stopped their patrol vehicle and attempted to make contact with Alexander, who was known to them to have outstanding warrants for […]
Selawik-based troopers report a fatality in a trooper-involved shooting on Thursday. Troopers report that AST responded to a burglary involving a firearm at 5:02 am on Thursday and searched the area before locating two suspects, one armed with a shotgun. At 5:40, the officer “perceived a threat” and discharged their service weapon at 26-year-old Douglas […]