Fifteen-year-old Shatara Stone was shot in Anchorage on the afternoon of December 7, 2021, while riding in a car with her mother through the Fairview neighborhood near East 14th Avenue and Denali Street. A single round struck the Bartlett High School sophomore in the head. She was taken to Providence hospital on life support and pronounced dead the morning of December 9, 2021.

Police focused quickly on a suspect, Odell Branch III, 42, who was arrested and initially charged with attempted murder and assault; after Shatara’s death the case was reclassified as a homicide and authorities said additional charges would follow. Friends and family held a candlelight vigil near the shooting site in the days after.

Does anyone who knew Shatara or who was near East 14th and Denali on December 7 have information to share?