Brandon Christopher Irlmeier, a 20-year-old Alaska Native man, was killed on December 2, 2017 in Anchorage. Police responded about 10:41 p.m. to an altercation on the 7000 block of Howard Avenue and found Irlmeier deceased from a gunshot wound. Family and Victims for Justice say he had also been beaten and strangled and left to die in freezing rain at the bottom of a staircase; his body was discovered outdoors and the death was classified a homicide.

In the days after the killing police identified three persons of interest described as young males in their late teens or early twenties. One of them, 21-year-old Orion Lind, was taken into custody and questioned but was not charged in connection with Irlmeier’s death; Lind was held on an unrelated probation violation. No arrests have been made and the case remains unsolved. Brandon’s grandmother has expressed concern about the investigation’s lack of progress and repeated vandalism of the memorial at the staircase where he died.

If anyone knew Brandon, was present that night, or has information about the people seen in the area, please come forward.