On January 28, 2023, in the predawn quiet of downtown Anchorage, a confrontation in the parking lot off West 3rd Avenue between G and H Streets, near the Gaslight Lounge, erupted into gunfire. Police were dispatched at 3:19 a.m. and found two adult men struck by bullets. One, a male, age 21, identified as Louis Mila Talo, was pronounced dead at the scene; the other was rushed to a hospital with life-threatening wounds.
Detectives cordoned off the lot and began interviewing multiple witnesses as the Crime Scene Team worked the frigid asphalt for answers.
Weeks later, investigators outlined a clearer picture through surveillance and bystander videos: an argument spilled out into the lot, a cup of coffee slapped away, tempers surging. Witnesses told police that the man later identified as the shooter briefly walked off, then returned with a gun and fired four shots. One witness said the victim did not have a firearm. Court records name the suspect as Musa Njie, 23, and detail how he was identified through DMV photographs, social media, and witness accounts.
Prosecutors filed charges on March 3, 2023: first- and second-degree murder in the killing of the male, age 21, Louis Mila Talo, and first- and second-degree attempted murder for the wounding of the second man. By then, investigators said the suspect had boarded a flight out of Anchorage on January 31. A warrant with no bail was issued for his arrest; at the time of the filing, he was not listed as in custody in Alaska.
As the case moved from a chaotic winter morning into the courts, the basic contours held fast: a downtown dispute, a burst of gunfire, and the loss of a young man—male, age 21, from Anchorage—whose name the city learned days later through the police bulletin that confirmed his death and the start of a homicide investigation. Details about an arrest beyond the warrant have not been publicly confirmed in the sources that reported the charges.
