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Sunday Morning Car Thief Suspect Dead after Four APD Officers Discharge their Weapons

By Alaska Native News on Dec 21, 2020 Featured, General News, Southcentral

Moments after midnight on Sunday morning, APD received a stolen vehicle report in the Russian Jack Park area. The caller and owner of the vehicle told police that he was following the car thief on Pine Street and APD officers responded to what would end up being a fatal officer-involved shooting a short time later. […]

Multiple-Count Conviction in May shooting Case that Forced Evacuation of Russian Jack Neighborhood

By Alaska Attorney General's Office on Sep 26, 2019 Featured, General News, Southcentral

On September 24, 2019 an Anchorage jury convicted 36-year-old Jose Miguel Contreras Evangelista of multiple offenses stemming from an east Anchorage shooting incident in which he fired several gunshots into a neighbor’s trailer with a mother and three of her children inside. As officers were responding to reports of the initial shots, Evangelista fired additional […]