The victim, a 21-year-old male, was found in the quiet predawn hours of February 10, 2024, after a 2:32 a.m. call drew Anchorage police to a residence on the 7300-block of Huntsmen Circle. Inside, officers discovered the 21-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the upper body; medics rushed him to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. The apartment, still and dim, held the first clues: the victim's bedroom, the single gunshot, and the sense that whatever had happened had unfolded between
people who knew each other. By that afternoon, investigators announced they believed all parties were accounted for, and no one was outstanding. The victim, later identified as Gabriel LeBlanc, age 21, had been shot inside his own home.
Detectives' picture of those minutes sharpened quickly. A 24-year-old man, Dylan Cole Moss, was the one who had called 911, telling dispatch he had shot someone in the head. When officers arrived, they found Moss standing outside the apartment's front door; he was detained and taken in for questioning. The medical facts were stark: Gabriel LeBlanc, age 21 and male, had been killed by a single gunshot wound to the head in his bedroom. That day, Moss was remanded at the Anchorage Correctional Complex on charges of second-degree murder and fourth-degree weapons misconduct, as investigators worked to understand the motive.
In the days that followed, the formal identification of the 21-year-old male victim, Gabriel LeBlanc of Anchorage, was released after next-of-kin notifications. The outline of the relationship between the two young men—suspect and victim—remained part of the developing case, but police emphasized early indications that they knew one another and that the deadly encounter occurred inside the victim's home. Community memorial pages marked the date and place of the killing, adding a name and age to the city's list of lives lost to gun violence.
On February 15, 2024, the case crossed a legal threshold: an Anchorage grand jury indicted Moss for causing the death of Gabriel LeBlanc, age 21, and added a count of misconduct involving a weapon for possessing a firearm while impaired by alcohol. Authorities noted that Moss was in Department of Corrections custody, with the court previously setting cash performance bail alongside house arrest monitored by the state's Pre-Trial Enforcement Division, and an arraignment scheduled in Superior Court for February 20, 2024. As the criminal process moved forward, officials stressed that the charges were allegations and that Moss was presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
From the first alarm in the middle of the night to the indictment one week later, the sequence was grim and tightly documented: a 911 call from the alleged shooter, a scene contained to a single residence, and the swift identification and arrest of a single suspect. For Gabriel LeBlanc, a 21-year-old male from Anchorage, February 10, 2024 became a fixed point in the public record; for investigators and prosecutors, it marked the beginning of a case that would proceed through Alaska's courts, centered on one victim, one suspect, and a fatal shot fired behind a bedroom door.
