Caleb Rockafield, a 20-year-old white male, left Wisconsin for Alaska and found a place with friends in East Anchorage, where the rhythms of shared meals and borrowed couches were the texture of ordinary days. On the evening of November 5, 2019, those familiar rooms on the 5400 block of East 26th Avenue filled with a small group of adults who all knew one another. A rifle—an AR-15 belonging to a neighbor—came into the room to be looked over, the kind of ill-timed curiosity that turns a quiet
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