Anchorage police are searching for a man caught on camera after vandals smashed windows — including historic stained glass — at Holy Family Cathedral late Tuesday night.
Surveillance footage shows the suspect walking near the downtown church shortly before 1 am on Wednesday. He gathered bricks from a planter outside Covenant House, located across the street, before hurling them through the cathedral’s windows.
The attack left shattered glass across the church grounds and damaged sections of stained glass that have been part of the landmark Catholic cathedral for years.
Must Read Alaska has obtained images from security cameras in hopes the public can help identify the suspect. In the footage, he is seen wearing a dark hoodie with a Nike logo, dark pants, and carrying a backpack.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Anchorage Police Department at (907) 786-8900 or submit tips anonymously through Crime Stoppers at (907) 561-STOP.
Holy Family Cathedral, a central place of worship for Anchorage’s Catholic community, has endured past incidents of vandalism, but parish members say this attack is especially painful because of the damage to its irreplaceable stained glass.
Church-goers downtown report that they are routinely interrupted during services by deranged street vagrants coming inside the sanctuary and yelling or otherwise causing disturbances, and that priests have been attacked routinely by street people in downtown Anchorage.
Will we see hate crime charges?
Why is a hoodie the preferred garment of thugs, bums, and criminals?
I was just wondering the very same thing.
Because they’re “hoods” – hoodlums.
I’m sure the Anchorage Police Department will be prioritizing this manhunt… not. I expect any number of folks including the cops know who this man is, but I can’t imagine the “progressive” atheists will be searching with any particular urgency.
Thank you Lafrance rigged elections have deadly consequences MURKOWSKI & Collins the rank stank queens
I’ve seen that guy before in downtown Anchorage. He acts deranged.
Unfortunately, I do no know his name.
Many young Natives were sexually and physically abused by priests and nuns in Western Alaska. It is possible that is the basis for this act. Not condoning the destruction of any property, however in the last 50 years I’ve met many Natives who were abused in Nome the church school in St. Mary’s. A parent or grandparent of his may have been a victim. Yes, lot of suppositions on my part, yet there is usually a reason for targeted violence.
When will we stop using this as an excuse for our actions TODAY… I see this rationale as being merely a scapegoat to avoid accountability
I specifically stated that I don’t condone his actions.
Many people were abused at the hands of clergy, nuns, etc. from many religious denominations. I don’t see a lot of others doing such destructive acts. Maybe it’s more cultural than revenge.
Actually, in the U S and worldwide, priests have been killed by their victims. Most of the revenge acts were by whites.
Jesuits slipped the spirit of the lord to many an Alaska Native.
Then the lord forgave them… just before slipping another temptation in their path.
50 boys were molested/raped in Stebbins & St Michael.
They were molested by a “lay volunteer” who came up to help the priest.
They are in their 60 and 70s now.
It was perhaps the worst case of church abuse in the whole US.
Just another day in Anchorage. Gotta keep up that 3rd world vibe.
A young man raised in the village and now banging around on the streets of San Franchorage. Could it be that someone in a clerical collar might have vandalized his heinder at some point and he’s not quite over the love that’s been shared? What are the odds?
Curiously high I’d wager.
Probably not. The kids that were molested in villages are senior citizens at this point.
Yet another example of democrat policies that coddle the criminals but ignore the needs of a society.
Criminals in our town are currently emboldened to destroy property not belonging to them, because our local justice system has not prosecuted such criminals for their behavior. No, they let them out on cashless bail and no jail time and the vagrants continue to do it again and again because of lack of consequence.
The anchorage assembly is going to make an environment that is so hostile to the fine residents that all the good folks will leave. What remains will be ashes in which the twisted leftists rule over. This is all by design.
That sounds about right, Assembly being hostile for residents to leave, then they can grab up the empty housing for the homeless to destroy Anchorage. That’s their ploy in the destruction of Anchorage.
Religious hate crime – nah – it was a Catholic cathedral.
Now if it was a Jewish synagogue or an Islamic mosque – ZERO TOLERANCE.
Where are the billion dollar Native Corps – please help your people?
He’s a good candidate for a Lightning Strike.
I cannot see a Nike logo on the sweatshirt.
If the APD were truly searching g for this guy you would see them on their feet downtown at the bus station and in Delaney Strip and in the town square because those are the places where he hangs out every day.
But they aren’t. And they have t been. And they won’t be. Because the mayor, and the council, and the chief of police won’t make them get off their asses and start walking around downtown, and haven’t done so for thirty years or more. None of them, from either party and from no party have ever ordered the police to police.
Possibly white.
-CNN
“Hooded youth with dark white skin”
-MSNBC
Its a Democrat run city. Of course we can’t have nice things.
Thank you MustReadAlaska for quality reporting on this vandalism and targeted hate crime. Minimized by other local news sources but then those news sources are useful for getting weather report.
There’s some great weather apps that can do that much better for you without having to filter out the network affiliate propaganda that goes with turning on local tv “newz” station.
Looks like a typical western Alaskan Blue ticket loser. In the Village when dealing with a malcontent, they ship them to a big city one way. Anchorage is plagued with these people.
The Catholic Church only defense is to cover the outside of the windows with a strong wire mesh. There will be no justice from the authorities.
There is no such thing as “Blue ticket”
That was in the 1940s – 1960s
Villigers’ buy a ticket here or come on a Medicaid provided ticket.
Please stop spreading this ANC Urban Myth.
Are the police looking for a man, possibly white?
Why does this article refer to “vandalism” repeatedly, but not “hate crime”?
This was a CHURCH that was targeted. In another article, another CHURCH was targeted.
Thanks for brining that up. “Hate crime” is typically a leftist term. I have seen a photo of the alleged perpetrator (and the police have too, and yet have not apprehended the man, and Alaska Native.) There’s no indication that he was acting motivated by hate for a protected class of people, which is what “hate crime” refers to. A new law, signed by Gov.Mike Dunleavy in 2024, makes vandalism of places of worship a felony, rather than a misdemeanor, but does not specify “hate crime,” which is something that is more of a federal designation, per the 1968 Civil Rights Act, the 1990 Hate Crime Statistics Act, and the 2009 Matthew Shepard Act. – sd