Utuva Alaelua was killed in an encounter that started with a traffic stop in Mountain View on May 12. His brother was killed by a different Anchorage police officer in February.

A screenshot taken from APD dashboard camera footage on May 12, 2025, shows Officer Thomas Harrison, left, backing away from an SUV driven by Utuva Alaelua just before Officer Carter Mayes fires ...

The Office of Special Prosecutions deemed that officer Carter Mayes was legally justified in shooting 41-year-old Utuva ...

Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case points to a still-frame of body camera footage of the fatal May 13 police shooting of Utuva Alaelua at a press conference on May 21, 2025.

May 15—Anchorage police on Thursday identified the man shot and killed by an officer Monday night on Bragaw Street as 41-year-old Utuva Alaelua. The incident began with a traffic stop for a ...

New information released this week from a fatal police shooting of a 41-year-old driver during a Northeast Anchorage traffic stop in mid-May indicates the man had both a gun and a phone in his lap ...

The State of Alaska has determined on Friday it will not bring charges forward for the officer involved in a May shooting ...