Anchorage police say that they apprehended a suspect wanted on several felony charges that originated on November 4th, after they surrounded a residence on McLin Circle on Tuesday afternoon. APD says that they responded to that McLin Circle addres and, because the suspect, identified as 33-year-old Shaun K. Worthen, was known to carry a weapon […]
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 […]
The man who stabbed nine people at a mall in the northern U.S. state of Minnesota has been identified as a 22-year-old Somali-American. The leader of the Somali community in the state told VOA Somali service that the suspect, who was shot and killed by police during the attack Saturday, was Dahir Adan. Abdul Kulane […]
An African American man was fatally shot Wednesday night by a police officer during a traffic stop in the midwestern city of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, prompting the governor, Mark Dayton, to call for an independent federal investigation. It was the second fatal police shooting of an African American male by white police officers in […]