Police seek new 'persons of interest' in Anchorage homicide investigation

Anchorage police are seeking two new "persons of interest" in a fatal shooting at a hotel on Spenard Road last week.

No arrests have been made in the killing at the Executive Suites hotel at 4630 Spenard Road, reported just after 5:15 a.m. on March 8.

Anchorage Police Department spokesperson Renee Oistad identified the victim in a Tuesday statement as Craig Berumen II, 32.

Police said later on the morning of the shooting that detectives wanted to speak with a person of interest in the case. He was taken into custody on Thursday, but APD has not said anything further about the investigation.

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Now, investigators have identified two more people they'd like to speak with: Emma Alto, 31, and Joseph Millard, 24.

It is believed Alto and Millard have information about the shooting, Oistad said.

Police Lt. John McKinnon previously told Alaska Dispatch News that witnesses reported seeing Berumen jump out of a window at the hotel next to McDonald's.

Police have not said whether the victim had rented a room at the hotel or was staying with someone who had.

A wounded Berumen reportedly got into a car outside the hotel as a passenger. The vehicle drove a short distance to the nearby fast food restaurant, where it was found idling and Berumen hanging half in, half out of the passenger side, McKinnon said.

In 2011, an Anchorage jury acquitted Berumen and another man of murder in the shooting death of a woman several years earlier.

Prosecutors contended that Berumen and his co-defendant planned to rob Jennifer Jacobson, whom they called to buy $40 of marijuana in February 2008.

Jacobson was later found shot to death outside Berumen's apartment in East Anchorage. A third man confessed to the shooting.