On the morning of March 28, 2023, a 29-year-old woman called Anchorage police at 10:36 a.m., telling dispatchers she intended to harm herself. Officers traced her to a parked car outside the Glenn Square shopping center on Mountain View Drive in Anchorage. Inside the vehicle with her was her 3-year-old son, a boy later memorialized publicly as Kai Vue, age 3, male. As the first officer arrived, the woman fired a gun, critically injuring herself and the child.
First responders rushed both to local hospitals, where they were pronounced dead. Police later identified the woman as 29-year-old Anee Vue and classified the case as a homicide–suicide. Authorities noted the child's name was not released by police due to his age and domestic-violence protections, but public memorial records have identified him as Kai Vue, age 3, male.
The scene was a quiet parking lot in Anchorage's Mountain View area, where officers converged after the distress call. The department's account describes a brief, desperate window between discovery and the gunshot, followed by immediate lifesaving efforts on the pavement and in the ambulance. By the next day, police made public the woman's identity and confirmed the manner of death, marking the loss as both intimate and irretrievable: a mother and her young child, age 3, male, gone within hours of the call that brought help to the car. Memorial listings recorded the boy's name and date, and community notes said simply that he was lost to gun violence on March 28, 2023, in Anchorage.
There were no arrests. Police identified the sole suspect as the boy's mother, Anee Vue, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene, and they reported no outstanding suspects. Investigators described the incident as domestic violence leading to a homicide–suicide; they did not indicate any broader threat to the public. The case's official updates ended with the confirmation of identities and manner of death, leaving behind a short, stark record of a 3-year-old child, male, whose name emerged only in memorials after police closed the file on a crime with no surviving perpetrator.
