James Lucas Moren, 41, was fatally shot in an alley behind the Gaslight Bar in downtown Anchorage just after bar break on December 24, 2016. Police say surveillance footage tracked him inside the bar and showed another man following him out into the narrow lot; witnesses and officers on foot patrol heard gunfire about 3:10 a.m. and found the scene of a close pursuit, a pickup truck staged for flight, and a handgun believed to be the weapon used.

Authorities identified two men from the video: David Dennis, 36, and Roy Schauer, 46. Detectives alleged Dennis drove to the rear lot and provided the firearm while Schauer, who had followed Moren from the bar, fired multiple rounds in the alley. Officers stopped Schauer as he attempted to leave and recovered a .45-caliber Glock near the driver’s side; both men were arrested and charged with murder in the first and second degrees and arraigned by the end of the holiday weekend.

Obituaries and memorial pages in the weeks after the killing described Moren as someone who had grown up around Anchorage and maintained ties to downtown; friends and family used those spaces to grieve. Are there witnesses who remember the moments outside the Gaslight that night or who saw activity in the 700 block of West Fourth Avenue around 3 a.m.?