Elijah Zeller, an 18-year-old Black male from Anchorage, was fatally shot and pronounced dead after being dropped at a local hospital just after 2:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 30, 2016. Police opened a homicide investigation but initially could not determine precisely where the shooting occurred; he had been delivered to the hospital by others and investigators worked to piece together his final movements.

Leads pointed to a large house party in the 5000 block of Cape Seville Drive that same morning, where officers had responded to noise complaints and later found spent shell casings outside. Witnesses reported more than one hundred people at the gathering, and detectives asked anyone who saw Zeller there or heard gunfire to contact homicide detectives or submit tips anonymously through Crime Stoppers. No suspect or suspects were in custody in the immediate aftermath and the death was listed among cases without identified offenders.

If anyone was at the Cape Seville party or has information about Elijah Zeller’s last hours, please contact Anchorage homicide detectives or submit an anonymous tip.