Salisa Loucks, 30, was found shot to death inside a Jeep SUV in an alley near East 12th Avenue and Cordova Street in Anchorage just after 11 p.m. on February 4, 2019. She suffered a gunshot wound to the upper body and was pronounced dead at the scene. Her name was released by police two days later as investigators worked to trace how the vehicle came to be in the alley and who fired into the Jeep.

Detectives reported that the shooter appeared to have been in a separate vehicle positioned next to Loucks’ SUV when the fatal shot was fired. Investigators interviewed several people, including a 38-year-old woman who had been in the other car. On March 7, 2019, officers detained 19-year-old Terrance Paleka Jr. as he arrived in Anchorage on a flight from Hawaii on a second-degree murder warrant in connection with the killing. Community remembrance pages and gun-violence databases record Loucks’ death and the subsequent arrest.

If anyone saw activity near East 12th Avenue and Cordova Street on the night of February 4, 2019, or has information about the vehicles involved, please come forward.