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Two killed, one wounded in South Anchorage shooting

March 12, 2010
  • Two men were killed and one woman was injured after a shootout Friday morning in this Nissan compact car. (Mike Nederbrock/KTUU-DT)
Two men were killed and one woman was injured after a shootout Friday morning in this Nissan compact car. (Mike Nederbrock/KTUU-DT)

Editor's note: Anchorage police have revised the age of the female victim from earlier reports.

by Maria Downey
Friday, March 12, 2010

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- An eruption of gunfire early Friday morning left two men dead and a woman injured. It happened around midnight in South Anchorage, bringing  this year's death toll from homicides up to four lives in just over two months.

"We've got probably at least three shots fired from two different guns," said Anchorage Police Department Sgt. Glen Daily.

All three people were shot inside a Nissan compact car in the Independence Park area between Vanguard and Congress streets, by the Fred Meyer on Abbott Road.

"We found one male inside the car, shot in the chest, and he ended up dying at the scene," Daily said.  "Found another male that had been pulled out, was laying on the ground next to the car -- he had been shot in the stomach."

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The man beside the car, 26-year-old Dale Marion Hills, was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. The other man killed has been identified as 34-year-old Bikendra Oja. Police say the woman, 26-year-old Ashley Jenkinson, received what's described as non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.

Witnesses say it was loud voices from the vehicle that caught their attention.

"That's early indications," Daily said. "That there were some independent witnesses who heard some arguing and that brought their attention to it, before the shots started."

Police say no other suspects were involved, but investigators are still trying to find out who shot whom.

"We know everything happened inside the vehicle between these three," said police spokesperson Marlene Lammers. "What happened, we don't know. There's one survivor to this incident. Detectives have not had the opportunity yet to interview her to determine, maybe, what might have happened.

"So obviously,  if anybody's seen or heard what happened prior to this, we would ask them to come forward and talk to detectives. Because we're trying to piece it all together."

Police are awaiting information from the lone survivor, Jenkinson, who underwent surgery after she was shot in the hand and leg.

Independence Park is also waiting for some answers, as more crime appears to moving into their part of town.

"There is no neighborhood where you don't have these," Daily said. "It's -- you can't put a label, ‘Here's where it happens, here's where it doesn't.' It happens more frequently in some places than others, but it can happen anywhere."

Police say so far, there is no indication about what led to the dispute or whether drugs were involved. Anyone with information is asked to call Crimestoppers at 561-7867.

Contact Maria Downey at mdowney@ktuu.com

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