A 17-year-old Black male, Xeryus Tate, was shot in the early hours of Sunday, July 31, 2016, on Anchorage’s east side. Just after 2 a.m. officers found him on the ground near his car at East 4th Avenue and Newell Street; a witness said the car had rolled to a stop, the teenage driver opened the door, stepped out, and collapsed while two passengers remained inside and two others ran from the scene.

Within days investigators named an 18-year-old suspect, Deandrew Lee Jennings Walker-Webster II, and obtained a manslaughter arrest warrant alleging he had been in the back seat and recklessly caused the driver’s death. The suspect turned himself in on August 5, 2016, and was held on a $50,000 cash or corporate surety bail with a third-party custodian.