Jersey Miller was 16 when he was shot and killed in Anchorage’s Abbott Loop on the afternoon of November 15, 2022. He stepped outside to meet others after messages about trading puff bars, and a 911 call came in at 2:46 p.m. Officers found him on the 7300 block of Cantonment Court with a single gunshot wound to the head. A makeshift memorial of candles, flowers, and a basketball marked the spot.

Investigators reconstructed the incident from neighborhood surveillance, traffic footage, witness interviews, and teens’ phones. Charging documents say three boys in a sedan intended to take Miller’s money without delivering product; after the driver looped the dead-end cul-de-sac and accelerated past him, a single shot came from the rear driver’s-side window. A Glock 10mm and matching ammo were later seized; no weapon was found on or near Miller.

Three juvenile suspects were detained within hours. Prosecutors charged 17-year-old Sakariya Abdulkadir Musa as an adult with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of robbery; the other two teens were remanded to the youth center and referred to juvenile justice. Anyone who knew Jersey, was in the neighborhood that afternoon, or has information is asked to come forward.