Update, 12:55 p.m. Tuesday: Anchorage police have identified the victim in Monday's shooting in East Anchorage as 19-year-old Preston Junior Clark Perdomo of Anchorage. The investigation is ongoing.
Original Story: A man was shot and killed Monday evening in a shooting in East Anchorage, but no suspects were in custody as of 9 p.m., Anchorage police said.
Shortly after 6 p.m., police dispatch got a report of shots fired on the 7800 block of Creekside Center Drive, near the intersection of DeBarr Road and Muldoon Road, according to a statement from the Anchorage Police Department.
"Moments later police received reports that a man had been shot outside of a residential unit in the area," the statement said.
Police responded and found a man with gunshot wounds. He was declared dead at the scene, police said.
By 7 p.m. Monday, police had wrapped crime scene tape around light poles and trees, blocking off part of Creekside Center Drive near an end-unit townhouse. Outside the home, a body lay on the pavement next to a white car.
Carlette Carney, who lives nearby, said she had been driving away from her home Monday evening just before the gunfire broke out.
"I heard a 'pow, pow, pow, pow, pow,'" she said. She said she drove toward the noise and ran out of her car.
Others had also run outside, she said.
Zack Throckmorton said he was outside the American Legion along Muldoon when he heard the gunshots and ran across the street.
Inside a white car, they found a man with gunshot wounds. He had his window rolled down, Carney said.
"We were yelling, 'Call 911!'" she said. The man in the car appeared to still be breathing, she said.
"He was still here," she said. "His body slowly started deteriorating."
Throckmorton said he and a police officer took turns performing CPR. At first, he said, he thought he felt a faint pulse.
Carney said she began praying. It appeared the man had wounds to his chest and arms, she said.
The man was declared dead at the scene, police said. He had not yet been identified Monday night.
Anchorage police detective Sgt. Slav Markiewicz said Monday night that police had not made any arrests.
He anticipated that the police crime scene team would remain on scene for several hours. Police went door-to-door interviewing witnesses. Other witnesses were at the police station, Markiewicz said.
"We know we have a homicide. We know we have a victim," he said. "And that's about it."