No arrests in U-Med shooting as Anchorage police request public’s help

The multiuse trail travels east/west between University Lake Park and the ANMC campus, in the area where a shooting was reported Monday night. Patient housing is on the left. Photographed Tuesday. (Bill Roth / ADN)

With no arrests made in a shooting Monday night in the U-Med area that left one man wounded, Anchorage police say they’re investigating the incident but also maintaining increased patrols to address public concerns.

One man was shot and another said he heard bullets whizzing past him in the shooting reported just after 10:45 p.m. Monday. The wounded man was in stable condition after the shooting. The other man was not hurt.

He told the Daily News that a man he didn’t know lured them over by yelling for help before firing multiple rounds as they stood outside the Alaska Native Medical Center campus near the University Lake Park trail system.

Police have said more than 30 officers searched for 3 1/2 hours overnight into Tuesday without finding a suspect.

Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case on Wednesday said the department had two primary focuses in response to the shooting.

“Obviously investigating the crime, but also I think we all recognize that this is a little bit of an unusual circumstance, that it’s in a high-traffic area and there’s certainly some concerns that members of the public, as well as we, have with the location that it took place,” Case said in an interview.

The area includes heavily trafficked facilities at the University of Alaska Anchorage and both ANMC and Providence Alaska Medical Center campuses. It also includes trails and the University Lake dog park.

Case said the patrols in part involve officers on bicycles, including on trails, as well as coordination with university police.

Asked if there was any additional suspect information that the Anchorage Police Department was releasing at this point, he said no.

The Anchorage Police Department is asking residents or businesses in the highlighted area to review security camera footage on Monday from 10 p.m. until midnight for a person on foot who is not known to them. (Image provided by APD)

The department on Wednesday shared a map of an area on the eastern edge of the district and asked residents and businesses with surveillance cameras pointed at the trail system there to review any surveillance footage from Monday between 10 p.m. and midnight.

Department spokeswoman Shelly Wozniak said police are asking anyone with security cameras that live or operate on Wesleyan Drive, Mills Drive, Knights Way, Queens Court, Marion Avenue, Bryn Mawr Court and Vance Drive to review footage.

“If they spot a pedestrian unknown to the footage owner in that area on that date and between that time, please contact 311,” Wozniak said in an email.