Crime & Courts

Anchorage police ask for public’s help in finding shooting suspect

Anchorage police are asking for help finding a man who they say exchanged gunfire with another person in downtown Anchorage.

Officers are looking for 22-year-old Elijah C. Ramirez. Police say that on Jan. 28, just after 10 p.m., officers got word of a shooting on the 5900 block of Sixth Avenue.

Shots had been fired at a house from a passing vehicle. Ramirez emerged from the home and ran down the street, firing at the vehicle. Ramirez was not allowed to be at the house due to a domestic violence incident from Jan. 1, police said.

About 45 minutes later, a woman arrived at an Anchorage hospital with non-life-threatening bullet wounds.

"Officers have determined she was inside the residence at the time the shots were fired and was struck," police wrote.

The suspect responsible for injuring the woman has not been charged yet, according to police.

Ramirez is described by police as 5-feet 5-inches tall and weighing 155 pounds. He is being charged with violation for conditions of release and misconduct involving a weapon in the second degree.

Laurel Andrews

Laurel Andrews was a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch News and Alaska Dispatch. She left the ADN in October 2018.

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