A 28-year-old woman was charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter in the shooting at a Spenard apartment complex.
Updated: 16 seconds agoAn Anchorage woman shot and killed a man during a fight among neighbors Saturday night at a Spenard apartment complex, police said.an online statementAnchorage police said officers responded at about 7:40 p.m. Saturday to a report of a shooting at an apartment complex on the 3700 block of Lois Drive, west of the intersection of Spenard Road and Minnesota Drive.
The name of the man who died will be released once next-of-kin notification procedures are complete, police said. Hayes’ husband had called 911 and said that his wife shot their neighbor, according to a sworn affidavit written by Anchorage police Detective Kristi Mercer in support of the criminal complaint. Hayes’ husband later told detectives that the couple had been moving planter pots around the complex when they got into an argument with the man, the affidavit said. The verbal argument escalated into a fistfight between Hayes’ husband and the neighbor, the affidavit said.
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