On December 10, 2017, in a small apartment near downtown Anchorage, a Black/African American male, Devan McDonald, age 22, was shot and killed. Investigators later described how the violence followed an impromptu birthday gathering at the residence on East 9th Avenue; McDonald had retreated to bed when a gunman opened fire into the bedroom. Medics and police could not save him, and the address—listed publicly as 618 E. 9th Avenue—became another grim marker in a year of record-setting homicid
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