On the night of December 3, 2017, in southeast Anchorage, 26-year-old Joshua Brandon Statham was involved in an altercation near the Holiday gas station at East 68th Avenue and Lake Otis Parkway. The confrontation, which began at about 10:45 p.m., moved from the store onto the street and ended when gunfire left Statham gravely wounded; he died in the early hours of December 4, 2017, at a hospital.

Police initially treated the killing as an isolated incident and sought help identifying two men seen at the Holiday station just before the confrontation, along with an older-model white Cadillac sedan linked to one of them. Years later, in December 2021, Anchorage police arrested 35-year-old Joseph Thomas Jones Sr. and prosecutors charged him with second-degree murder, with charging documents alleging the events began with people looking for a missing phone and escalated into the fatal encounter.

If anyone knew Joshua, was at that gas station that night, or has information about the search for a phone or the two men and the white Cadillac, please come forward.