Kevin Andrew Napier, 37, was shot and killed inside an apartment on the 3500-block of West 88th Avenue in southwest Anchorage in the early morning darkness of August 25, 2018. A disturbance was reported at 2:29 a.m.; officers found him with a fatal gunshot wound to the upper body and several people who had been inside scattered as police secured the scene. Multiple individuals were detained for questioning that night, but no arrests were announced in the immediate aftermath.

Earlier that night Napier had arrived to visit people at the complex and had gone from a downstairs unit to the apartment directly above to see a woman. Almost immediately after he went upstairs, two gunshots rang out. An acquaintance in the lower unit saw a man in a dark hoodie—possibly white or Alaska Native—coming down the stairs shortly after, and that man then slipped into Napier’s blue 2006 Dodge Dakota and drove away. Three days later the pickup was found abandoned and burning off Hiland Road in the Eagle River area, which destroyed potential evidence and added arson to the incident.

Detectives canvassed for witnesses and video, and the hooded man and the torched truck remain the key leads in this open homicide investigation. Did anyone in the area see the pickup that night or recognize the man seen descending the stairs?