Kaupoe Magalei Jr., a 30-year-old Black man, was shot and killed in the early hours of February 27, 2022, inside Al’s Alaskan Inn on the Old Seward Highway in Anchorage. Police were called just before 2 a.m.; officers found Magalei dead at the scene after an altercation with another man that escalated to gunfire. East 79th Avenue was cordoned off while crime-scene teams canvassed for witnesses and surveillance footage, and investigators early on described the shooting as not random.

By the evening of the same day, 36-year-old William Jamal Gary was taken into custody and later remanded to the Anchorage jail on counts of first- and second-degree murder. An Anchorage grand jury indicted Gary on March 9, 2022, on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder; he was held on $400,000 bond and scheduled for arraignment. The charges allege Gary shot and killed the 30-year-old inside the bar.

Does anyone who was at Al’s Alaskan Inn that night or who has surveillance from nearby businesses remember the disturbance before the shooting?