Charles Gustav Steinhilpert III, an 18-year-old Alaska Native Naltsiin Athabascan from Anchorage, was shot and killed on January 25, 2015. According to police, he met at about 8:39 p.m. in the Walgreens parking lot at Lake Otis Parkway and Tudor Road for what was described as a drug transaction. An altercation with a 14-year-old male led to the younger boy producing a gun and firing a single shot into the vehicle where Steinhilpert sat. Friends drove him to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead about twenty minutes later; it was Anchorage’s first homicide of 2015.

Detectives initially detained the 14-year-old and referred him to the Division of Juvenile Justice. Investigators later widened the probe: on February 7 police arrested 18-year-old Keiara Reynaud, charging him with second-degree murder and first-degree robbery in connection with the robbery and fatal shooting, and on February 8 they charged 19-year-old Makur Chan with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of first-degree robbery, one count related to Steinhilpert’s death. Family and friends remembered Steinhilpert as bright and kind; born July 24, 1996, he graduated from South Anchorage High School in May 2014, participated in Native Youth Olympics, served four years in JROTC, and volunteered regularly. A funeral service was held January 31, 2015, at Anchorage City Church.

If anyone knew Charles, was at the Walgreens lot that night, or has information about the incident, please share what is known.