Two dead in separate shootings in Anchorage during the weekend

APD police vehicles (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)
APD police vehicles (Photo by Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media – Anchorage)

Two teenagers were killed over the weekend in separate shooting incidents in Anchorage.

At about 2 a.m. Saturday, Anchorage Police Department were notified that Elijah Zeller, 18, was dropped off at an area hospital with a gunshot wound.
Zeller was pronounced dead at the hospital. APD is investigating Zeller’s death as a homicide.

Officers responded to the weekend’s second fatal shooting just after 2 a.m. Sunday, after receiving a call of shots fired near the intersection of 4th Avenue and Newell Street.

APD officers discovered Xeryus Tate, 17, dead in the street.

Anchorage Police said the shooting does not appear to be random.

Zeller’s and Tate’s next of kin have been notified.

No arrests have been made in either case.

Sunday’s homicide was Anchorage’s fourth in five days.

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