Pacific Islander male, age 33. On the evening of November 6, 2020, Anchorage dispatchers took reports of shots fired near Mountain View Drive and North Bliss Street. Officers arrived to find Rick F. Moa, age 33, gravely wounded; he was taken to a hospital, where he died. Early investigative details pointed to an argument at a homeless camp in the Mountain View neighborhood that escalated into a fight and gunfire.
By November 8, detectives had identified a single suspect, located him, questioned him, and booked him into the Anchorage Jail.
The victim was publicly identified as Rick F. Moa, age 33, and records show he was born in American Samoa, underscoring Pacific Islander roots. Community remembrance pages and memorial listings later marked his date of death as November 6, 2020, in Anchorage.
Days after the shooting, police named the suspect as Peejay Her, then 52, and announced initial charges of second-degree murder, third-degree misconduct involving weapons, and evidence tampering. Two months later, in a formal update relayed by the Alaska Attorney General's Office and shared by Anchorage Police, a grand jury indicted Her for first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, third-degree misconduct involving weapons, and first-degree tampering with physical evidence, all tied to the November 6 killing of Rick Moa at the Mountain View homeless camp. Authorities emphasized that the charges were allegations and that Her was presumed innocent pending trial.
Local reporting the following week echoed the police timeline: officers answered the Mountain View and Bliss Street call around 8:30 p.m., found Rick Moa, age 33, near a gas station with gunshot wounds, and he later died at the hospital. With an arrest made and an indictment secured, investigators continued assembling the case while asking anyone with surveillance footage or information to come forward.
