White/Caucasian male Geoffrey Lawrence Sorden, 48, died on June 18, 2018, after a shooting in Anchorage, Alaska. Police were called a little after 4 p.m. to a residence in the 6000-block of Austin Street, near Dowling Road and the Old Seward Highway, where officers found two men with gunshot wounds: Geoffrey Sorden, 48, who was pronounced dead at the scene, and the homeowner, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital.
Anchorage police opened a homicide investigation into the killing of Geoffrey Sorden, 48.
Detectives announced that someone present during the shooting had left the location before officers arrived. Within days, investigators said they wanted to speak with 41-year-old Jason E. Premo about what he may have witnessed in the killing of Geoffrey Sorden, 48, and released his name and photo to the public.
By early August, the Anchorage Police Department publicly identified Jason E. Premo as a manslaughter suspect in the June 18 death of Geoffrey Sorden, 48. On August 20, 2018, police arrested Premo on a manslaughter warrant; contemporaneous reporting described that arrest following a vehicle pursuit, and incident logs list him as the subject-suspect who was arrested while another male victim was injured and Geoffrey Sorden, 48, was killed. Authorities did not announce a murder charge, and available records and reporting describe a manslaughter case linked to the shooting.
In the days after the killing, online memorials and obituaries remembered Geoffrey Lawrence Sorden, 48, as a longtime Anchorage resident who moved to the city as a child and built a wide circle of friends and family. Notices published by the Cremation Society of Alaska and memorial pages confirmed his death on June 18, 2018, in Anchorage.
