Police said the victim, found outside a West 31st Avenue apartment building just after midnight Thursday, was taken to a hospital but later died.
Anchorage police are investigating a man’s death early Thursday after he was shot outside a Turnagain apartment building.officers responded just after midnight to reports of the shooting, at an apartment complex on the 2800 block of West 31st Avenue off Turnagain Street.
“Officers located an adult male lying in the parking lot with at least one gunshot wound to the upper body,” police said in the statement. “He was transported to a hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.” Police didn’t name the victim Thursday morning as they notified his family. No information on a suspect was publicly available, police said, and the circumstances of the shooting – including whether the victim and suspect knew each other – remained under investigation.
Asked if police believe the shooting was random or targeted, police spokeswoman Renee Oistad said investigators “do not have a public safety concern.” She declined to answer detailed questions about the shooting, due to the ongoing investigation. Police are asking anyone with information about or surveillance video of the shooting to contact them at 311. Anonymous tips can be submitted online through
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