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Two people were killed and another hospitalized with life-threatening injuries in three unrelated shootings over the weekend, Anchorage police said.
"These are isolated incidents that occurred," said Anchorage Police Deputy Chief Ken McCoy.
No suspects have been arrested yet in any of the incidents, he said. Police have released very few details about what happened in each of them.
The first fatal shooting took place on Saturday night in East Anchorage. On Monday, police said only that "a group of people in the area … got into an altercation" that led to the incident.
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They identified the victim as Brandon Irlmeier, 20. Officers found his body near Sixth Avenue and Oklahoma Street at around 11 p.m when they were responding to a call about two men with guns nearby.
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Orion Lind, 21, was later taken into custody for questioning but was not arrested as part of the shooting investigation, police said. He was being held at the Anchorage jail on an outstanding warrant for a probation violation.
Next, a man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries Sunday night after officers found him with a gunshot wound in a room of the Alex Hotel on Spenard Road, police said.
Officers arrived at the hotel after 9 p.m., responding to a report of a shooting.
"Detectives believe this to be a drug-related incident and not random," police said in a short release that gave no other details.
A few hours later on Sunday night, a man was shot and killed during a fight at the intersection of 68th Avenue and Lake Otis Parkway, police said.
The victim has been identified as Joshua Statham, 26.
Police arrived at the scene and found him alive just before 11 p.m. Statham was taken to a hospital by ambulance and later died.
Police said the incident was "not a random encounter." They released no suspect information.
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Including the two most recent deaths, there have been 33 homicides in Anchorage so far this year, according to APD. There were 34 in 2016. Deputy Chief McCoy stressed that the crimes did not have random victims and do not point to a lack of safety for members of the general public in Anchorage.
"There are small pockets of people who are using violence within their inner circle…" he said. "The general population that isn't involved with this group are relatively safe to go about their daily lives."
Police asked members of the public with information about any of the incidents contact them at 907-786-8900 (press "0" for an operator), or, to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 561-STOP or online.