Amanda Rose Owen, a 23-year-old female, Alaskan Native, from Anchorage, Alaska died on November 28, 2019, after being shot during a Thanksgiving gathering at an apartment on the 200-block of McCarrey Street. Police and medics were called a little after 3 p.m.; officers found the 23-year-old female with a gunshot wound to the upper body, and she was taken to a hospital, where she died a short time later.
In life, the 23-year-old female was known as Amanda Rose Owen.
Born in Anchorage in 1996, she worked locally and was the mother of a young son. Her funeral was held on December 11, 2019, in Anchorage, and her obituary anchors her name and age to the date of death that Thanksgiving.
As detectives began piecing together the day's events, witnesses described a grim and intimate scene: the 23-year-old female was seated with her one-year-old child on her lap when a confrontation erupted. According to accounts summarized in charging documents and later in court filings, the argument centered on social-media slights; in the middle of the family's holiday preparations, a handgun was produced, aimed, and a single shot struck her in the head.
That evening, Anchorage police announced they were searching for a suspect and later reported an arrest. Officers took 27-year-old Moses Tony Crowe into custody and booked him into the Anchorage jail. Within days, a grand jury returned an indictment charging him with first- and second-degree murder in the death of the 23-year-old female, along with one count of weapons misconduct and multiple counts of unlawful contact. Public records summarizing the case list the 23-year-old female as the victim and identify a familial relationship between victim and suspect.
The contours of what happened inside that apartment—holiday chatter cut short, a family argument turning deadly, a child caught in the crossfire—moved quickly from a frantic Thanksgiving afternoon to the deliberate cadence of the courts. Police statements and the grand-jury action laid out the basic facts of the killing of the 23-year-old female, while the obituary and memorials that followed fixed her name, age, and the date in the public record.
