Anchorage

Anchorage police investigate fatal Sunday night shooting

The Anchorage Police Department said they were investigating the death of an apparent shooting victim in the area of Lake Otis Parkway and Tudor Road Sunday night.

Few details were immediately available, but police said that just after 8:30 p.m., they received a report of a man with a gunshot wound located at a business near Lake Otis and Tudor.

"Police were told the victim was personally being transported to a nearby hospital," a release from APD said. The man was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Police spokeswoman Jennifer Castro said that to the best of her knowledge, no one had been taken into custody as of about 9:45 p.m. She added that police were "still very fresh" in the investigation and had not yet determined the exact circumstances of the shooting, but had a large police presence in the area.

Anyone with information about the incident was asked to contact police at 907-786-8900.

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