The man who was pronounced dead at the scene of a shooting in downtown Anchorage has been identified as 23-year-old Leroy Manogiamanu.
The shooting took place at about 2:50 am outside the Gaslight Lounge, which is nearly directly across from the Anchorage Police Department’s downtown headquarters.
When officers arrived, they found three victims, one of whom had non-life-threatening injuries, one with life-threatening injuries; and one deceased adult male victim, who was identified on Monday morning. Medics transported the victims to the hospital. A fourth victim was later located with non-life-threatening injuries. The Crime Scene Team has responded to process the scene. The suspect is still at large.
Manogiamanu, who lived with family members in the Muldoon area of Anchorage, has no prior run-ins with the law in Alaska. His court record has just minor vehicle-related violations.
Sad situation. My heart goes out to his family, and friends. Mayor LaFrance, what has happened to our city? How could this happen, right across the street from the police department? Please DO something!
To be fair, the Gaslight has been the scene of quite a few murders going back years.
Perhaps the Gaslight should be denied their liquor license, but the murders are all outside the bar on Muni property (one of the wounded here was laying in the APD parking lot) so idk.
Unfortunately, the “seemingly” innocent person AGAIN got shot.
Bars don’t need to be open past midnight…3 am is too late.
“We are now five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”. Barack Obama, 2008.
Now, several gears later, we have a better idea of what he had in mind.
Obama to Trump, to Biden and back to Trump. We need to do better.