Jesus Isauro Oropeza was a 17-year-old Hispanic/Latino male who was shot and killed on the street outside his Government Hill home in Anchorage just after midnight on January 21, 2017. A neighborhood surveillance camera captured two young men confronting him, forcing him to the ground, rifling through his clothing, and then shooting him in the back as he lay on his stomach; he died there that winter night.

Within days investigators publicly identified two 18-year-old suspects, Sean Robert Samuel Simeonoff and Kenya Damien Jacob Berezkin. Simeonoff was taken into custody January 24, and police later arrested Berezkin after a witness who had driven the pair and two others to Birch and Vine Streets cooperated, placed a monitored call in which Berezkin urged her to delete texts and deny giving them a ride, and helped officers locate him. Both were arraigned on charges including Murder in the First Degree, Murder in the Second Degree, and Robbery in the First Degree, with bail set at $500,000 each.

If anyone knew Jesus, the route he took that night, or saw activity around Birch and Vine Streets on January 21, 2017, please share what we might not yet know.