Police say they are investigating the death of a 17-year-old girl in East Anchorage late Monday night as a homicide.
The girl, who was not identified because she was a minor, was shot and killed in a residence on Eastgate Place in a shooting reported around 11:30 p.m., the Anchorage Police Department said in a statement issued Thursday.
Officers arriving at the address found the girl with upper-body trauma and she was declared dead at the scene, police said. No arrests had been made as of midday Thursday, they said.
The shooting remained under investigation Thursday, but detectives “have cause to believe that this is an isolated incident,” police said.
Department spokesman Chris Barraza on Thursday did not answer questions, including what led them to think the shooting was an isolated incident, saying by email that “this is still an active case, and we currently have no more information to share.”