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Crime & Courts

Drug-related shooting at Spenard Hotel sends man to hospital

By Julia O'Malley
Updated: December 5, 2017 Published: December 4, 2017

The Alex Hotel, at 4613 Spenard Road, was the site of a shooting on December 4, 2017. “Detectives believe this to be a drug-related incident and not random,” police said.( Marc Lester / ADN)

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, according to Anchorage police.

Officers arrived at the hotel after 9 p.m., responding to a report of a shooting, police said.

"Detectives believe this to be a drug-related incident and not random," police said.

Police gave no other information about the incident.

This story has been updated here: Three shootings, two of them fatal, over the weekend in Anchorage

Julia O'Malley

Anchorage-based Julia O'Malley is a former ADN reporter, columnist and editor. She received a James Beard national food writing award in 2018, and a collection of her work, "The Whale and the Cupcake: Stories of Subsistence, Longing, and Community in Alaska," was published in 2019. She's currently writer in residence at the Anchorage Museum.

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