APD Chief Sean Case said the 16-year-old approached officers holding a knife late Tuesday night, calling her death 'tragic.'
An Anchorage police vehicle at the scene of an officer-involved shooting on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. The shooting happened in a neighborhood on the 4800 block of East 43rd Avenue, near the Alaska Native Medical Center, according to, Police Chief Sean Case said that officers had been responding to a “disturbance” between two family members at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. The caller said her sister had threatened her with a knife.
“One single officer fired multiple rounds,” he said. “A second officer fired a round with a less-lethal projectile.”“The subject that was shot was a 16-year-old female,” Case said. “She would have started her junior year in high school on Thursday. This is a tragic incident. There’s no other way to describe it. As police officers, we strive to protect human life and when we don’t meet that goal, there’s no other way to describe it then it’s tragic.
“Each officer is making a determination to use the tool that they have with them based on the circumstances in front of them,” he said.
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