Anchorage Daily News

Anchorage police have identified the victim in the city's first homicide of the year as Ricky Sumdum, 50. He died in a Mountain View apartment of blunt-force trauma, according to an autopsy by the state medical examiner.

The injuries were not isolated to one part of the body, Marlene Lammers, a police spokeswoman, said this morning.

No one has been charged, she said.

Sumdum, two other men and a woman were drinking in an apartment in the 700 block of Mumford Street early on Jan. 2 when the men got into an altercation, Lammers said.

One of the men called police and said his friend was unresponsive. Police got there just before 6:30 a.m. Medics couldn't revive Sumdum.

Homicide detectives have interviewed the other people in the apartment that morning and are continuing their investigation into who is responsible for the death of Sumdum.

No one in the apartment that morning lived there, Lammers said. She said she didn't know who rented the apartment.

Police aren't releasing the names of the other individuals during the investigation.

A database of court records shows that Sumdum had a criminal history of assault and other crimes.

Find Lisa Demer online at adn.com/contact/ldemer or call 257-4390.

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