A 17-year-old has been charged with manslaughter and driving under the influence in a rollover crash that killed another boy early Monday in South Anchorage.
Stefan Shearer was driving a Ford F-350 pickup with two passengers around 2:40 a.m. when the truck left the road on a curve near the 6000 block of Bluebell Drive, according to a summary of a police report included with charging documents.
The truck’s SOS system placed an automated call to dispatchers that reported a collision, and police arrived at the scene eight minutes later, the summary said. One of the passengers, described in the summary as a juvenile male, was trapped beneath the upside-down truck, it said.
The Anchorage Fire Department responded to free him, but he died at the scene, the summary said.
The other passenger told police the group had been at a party earlier where Shearer drank alcohol, the summary said. The passenger reported Shearer took the curve “way too fast” and the truck went off the road and rolled, it said.
Shearer tossed his wallet away from him when police arrived, and later told them it was because he had a fake ID in it, the summary said. Police noted signs of impairment and conducted field sobriety tests before taking him into custody on a charge of driving under the influence, it said.
A breath-alcohol sample taken at the Anchorage jail was nearly two times the legal limit for driving in Alaska, the summary said.
Shearer was charged with manslaughter, driving under the influence and tampering with evidence. He appeared in court Tuesday and bail was set at $3,000 with additional conditions of release, including house arrest, according to log notes from the hearing.
An attorney representing Shearer did not immediately respond to a message on Wednesday.