Kawena Naleieha, a 26-year-old Black woman, was found with upper-body trauma along the 100 block of North Post Road near Ship Creek shortly before 8 a.m. on September 14, 2025. Officers arrived at 7:59 a.m.; medics transported her to Providence Alaska Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead. Police later identified her and notified next of kin.

Detectives recovered surveillance footage showing a green Subaru with a white hood passing the spot where she collapsed; the video reportedly captured her noticing the car minutes before she was found. Investigators located a similar Subaru disabled near Chena Avenue and Davis Street in Muldoon. When that vehicle’s driver was detained, he allegedly told detectives he had been looking for Naleieha that morning and fired multiple .22-caliber rounds from the driver’s window before driving away.

By September 17, detectives named a suspect and arrested 19-year-old Jacob Berkey, charging him with second-degree murder; he was remanded to the Anchorage Correctional Complex and did not enter a plea at his initial appearance. Friends and relatives organized fundraisers and memorial pages that mourned her as a beloved sister and described her death as silencing a witness. If anyone knew Kawena, her movements that morning, or saw the Subaru, please come forward with information.