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Police were called to this apartment building around 8:30 a.m. Saturday to investigate a possible homicide. (Mike Nederbrock/KTUU-DT)
Neighbors report seeing another vehicle towing this one into the parking lot on a rope shortly before the shooting. (Mike Nederbrock/KTUU-DT)
Police spokesperson Lt. Dave Parker says neighbors are being interviewed by police as the investigation continues. (Mike Nederbrock/KTUU-DT)by Christine Kim
Sunday, November 21, 2009
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Anchorage police say they have contacted three witnesses who left the scene of Saturday morning's fatal shooting on Dimond Boulevard. Police say they also found the green SUV they've been searching for in connection with the incident.
Officers were notified of a possible homicide at an apartment building on Dimond's 3600 block around 8:30 a.m. Saturday. They arrived at the scene to find one man dead inside an apartment.
"Anchorage Police Department got a call from a neighbor saying that they believed someone had been shot," said APD spokesperson Lt. Dave Parker. "They heard someone yelling, ‘Someone's been shot.'"
Neighbors who declined to be on camera say they heard commotion outside the building. One neighbor says two people lived in the apartment -- the man and his wife -- and there were three people involved in the incident. He says he heard a man wailing and shouting out words like "stab" and "rob." Police have not yet confirmed this.
Another neighbor says he saw a car being pulled with a rope into the parking lot by another vehicle.
"The officers who responded found that vehicle exactly where it is and then they included it into the crime scene with the tape," Parker said. "And exactly why, I don't know."
Witnesses also reported seeing Ariel Sizemore, 19, and Sineti Delara, 29, leave the scene in a green SUV with a man known as "Jeremy." Police have now spoken with all three people and impounded the vehicle as evidence.
"The case now enters a phase wherein the detectives and the crime scene specialists will be looking at the whole case, at all elements, all the evidence gathered and all of the witness statements that have been made, and then draw some conclusions from that," Parker said.
Police say they haven't determined if the man's death was a homicide or a suicide. They will conduct an autopsy Monday.
The name of the victim has not been released.
Contact Christine Kim at ckim@ktuu.com
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