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Jayla Blackshear

Case from Anchorage, AK dated Apr 15, 2022

Victim Details

Jayla Blackshear

Female

Black / African American

Anchorage

AK

2022-04-15

14

Jayla

Blackshear

Yes

07/09/2026

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A fourteen-year-old Black female, Jayla Blackshear, breathed her last on April 15, 2022, in her East Anchorage home, alongside her thirty-five-year-old mother, Raechyl Blackshear, a nurse. That afternoon, Anchorage police responded to a welfare check and discovered both victims inside the residence. The initial grim finding soon revealed they had each sustained fatal shotgun wounds, a discovery that jolted the community and marked the scene as a double homicide. The teenager's age, gender, and e ...
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  • Alaska Public Media: Man wanted in connection to Anchorage double homicide is arrested in New York - Alaska Public Media
  • Anchorage police seek man they say is linked to domestic-violence deaths of woman and girl
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