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David Anthony Welch

Case from Anchorage, AK dated Nov 12, 2018

Victim Details

David Welch

Male

Black / African American

Anchorage

AK

2018-11-12

27

David

Anthony Welch

Yes

07/03/2026

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On the late afternoon of November 12, 2018, Black male, David Anthony Welch, a 27-year-old male, was shot in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Express on Spenard Road in Anchorage. Officers were dispatched at 4:27 p.m. and found him gravely wounded from a gunshot to the upper body. He was rushed to Providence Alaska Medical Center, where he died later that day; police publicly announced his death the following morning as the investigation shifted from a shooting to a homicide.

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