Update, 8 a.m. Tuesday: Denise Anntonette Estell, sought by police in connection with a Sunday shooting in Fairview, turned herself in at the Anchorage Correctional Complex at about 7:30 p.m. Monday, Anchorage Police Department spokesperson Anita Shell said. She is charged with first-degree assault.
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Anchorage police are looking for 33-year-old Denise Anntonette Estell, who is wanted on a felony assault warrant in connection with a shooting in Fairview on Sunday afternoon.
Police said in a release Monday that Estell and a 34-year-old woman were involved in a verbal altercation outside a residence on East 13th Avenue near Ingra Street shortly before 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Estell pulled out a weapon and shot the victim once in the chest, according to police.
The woman was taken to a hospital for treatment and released a few hours later, police said; she initially declined to identify the person who shot her.
Estell is described as black, 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Police said she fled the scene in a white Buick Rendezvous SUV with the license plate GXY642.
Anyone with information on Estell's whereabouts is asked to call the Anchorage Police Department at 907-786-8900 or Crime Stoppers at 907-561-STOP.