AST received a call reporting a fatal shooting in the community of Alakanuk early in the morning on Tuesday. As a result of the 1:03 am call, troopers from nearby Emmonak responded and opened a preliminary investigation. Upon arrival, 20-year-old Kobe Cook was found dead at the local clinic from multiple gunshot wounds. The Alaska […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Monday, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna sentenced 22-year-old Anthony Raymond Salazar and 26-year-old Haitim Mahir Taha for the April 7, 2017, murder of Leroy Lawrence in Anchorage. Both defendants pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault for the April 7, 2017, drive-by shooting in […]
(Anchorage, AK) – Friday, 24-year-old Christopher Espiritu-Simpson pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree and one count of misconduct involving weapons in the second degree for two shootings in Anchorage in December 2017. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna accepted Espiritu-Simpson’s guilty plea to the charges. On December 27, 2017, Espiritu-Simpson […]
Alaska State Troopers released the names of Saturday’s Dillingham murder victims as well as the suspect in the killings on Monday. According to the AST report. a community member in Dillingham discovered two other residents, later identified as 31-year-old Timothy Evans and 32-year-old Jennifer Gardiner, deceased at a residence near the Dillingham airport at 10 am […]