Anchorage police identify man shot and killed by officer

Updated: December 22, 2017 Published: December 22, 2017

Charles McBride was shot and killed by Anchorage police after they responded to a call of shots fired at the 2000 block of Salmonberry Place late Wednesday night, Dec. 20, 2017. (Bill Roth / ADN)

The armed man who was shot and killed by Anchorage police late Wednesday has been identified as 56-year-old Charles McBride.

Police released his name Friday morning after his family was notified.

The shooting happened outside McBride's home in a small housing development on Salmonberry Place, along the Chester Creek trail between A and C streets. Police had been called to the area because of a man firing his gun at a neighbor and maintenance man dealing with a just-broken window.

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Police arrived, heard more shots and looked for the suspect. Just before midnight, police said, the man emerged from his garage firing his gun. An officer returned fire and McBride was hit at least once. He died at the scene, police said.

This is the second fatal shooting by Anchorage police officers this year. On Nov. 15, Thomas Barclay was shot and killed by officers after he pointed a gun at them in a supermarket parking lot in Muldoon.

Lisa Demer

Lisa Demer was a longtime reporter for the Anchorage Daily News and Alaska Dispatch News. Among her many assignments, she spent three years based in Bethel as the newspaper's western Alaska correspondent. She left the ADN in 2018.