White / Caucasian, male, Bradley “Brad” Robert, age 23, stepped outside his home in the Kathy Estates Trailer Court on Chugach Way in Anchorage just before 1 a.m. on November 11, 2022, after he and his girlfriend heard a commotion. A fight among others had spilled into the street. In the dim cold, the 23-year-old tried to help, according to his girlfriend, when gunfire tore through the chaos. Officers were dispatched at 12:58 a.m.; by November 14 the victim was identified as Bradley
“Brad” Robert, age 23, and the case marked one of Anchorage's homicides that year.
In the days that followed, detectives worked the case while the city counted another family's loss. Later that month, investigators and prosecutors said the shooting stemmed from a dispute among two of the shooter's relatives; the 23-year-old bystander was killed as he tried to intervene. On November 28, 2022, authorities charged 29-year-old Anthony Tinker III with first- and second-degree murder connected to the killing of Bradley “Brad” Robert, age 23, alongside separate charges tied to a cross-town crime spree.
Nearly twenty months later, in July 2024, homicide detectives named a second suspect, 20-year-old Vincent J. Sandifer, and obtained a felony warrant for first- and second-degree murder. SWAT officers arrested him the next day. That same afternoon, the state signaled a turn in the case: prosecutors said that once Sandifer was arraigned, they would move to dismiss the murder charges against Anthony Tinker. In court soon after, the murder charges against Tinker were dismissed, leaving Sandifer as the person facing murder counts in the death of Bradley “Brad” Robert, age 23.
Friends and family remembered the 23-year-old as bright-spirited and quick to help—the kind of young father, son, and brother whose laugh carried across a room—details that echoed painfully against the bare facts of a late-night disturbance that ended in gunfire outside a modest trailer court. The loss of Bradley “Brad” Robert, age 23, would be marked online by vigils and remembrances as the legal case continued its passage through arrests, charges, and a shifting roster of suspects.
