Photos: A life ends on an Anchorage street

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Jonathan Johnson died early Sunday June 28, 2015 when he shot himself.

Around 1:45 a.m. Sunday, Jonathan Johnson told a friend he needed to head home. He had been drinking, and he had work at IHOP in the morning.

The 25-year-old set out into the night on foot. He was headed to a low-cost midtown motel he'd been staying at for a few days -- a development he was happy about, despite a shared bathroom.

An hour later, he would be dead.

Just before 2:20 a.m., Anchorage police say, Johnson walked into the City Center Motel at 604 W. 26th Ave., argued with a clerk and fired a shot at him.

The bullet came close enough to put a hole in the clerk's shirt, but didn't injure him.

Police say Johnson then pointed the gun at other people in the lobby area and fled.

The 25-year-old ran down the street, taking his own life with a single gunshot just as he reached the intersection with Arctic Boulevard.

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