Black / African American, female, age 40, Li-Teh Kyzia Mary Elizabeth Fogg died on May 16, 2017, in Anchorage, Alaska. Obituary notices recorded that she was “brutally murdered,” shot point-blank in the chest, and funeral services were held in Anchorage in early June. Her death was one of a rapid succession of killings that spring, and memorial pages later marked the date she was lost to gun violence.
The police response that evening began with calls about a loud verbal altercation at a house on the 200 block of Denali Street, near downtown Anchorage, shortly after 8 p.m. When officers arrived, they found the 40-year-old victim fatally wounded. According to a criminal complaint summarized by local reporting, a dispute over entry to the residence had unfolded: door codes had been changed earlier in the day, and when the victim and others returned to find themselves locked out, they moved to the back of the property, found a ladder, and the victim climbed toward a window. Moments later a single shotgun blast struck her in the chest; she died at the scene in the arms of her partner.
Investigators said the residence had been divided into rented rooms and that the landlord, 61-year-old Yolanda Castro, had been living there while doing repair work. Witness accounts in the complaint described an argument at the window and a warning from inside before the shot. Police questioned several people present and recovered the shotgun. Castro was arrested and booked into the Anchorage Correctional Complex that night.
The following day, authorities announced charges of first- and second-degree murder against Castro in the killing of the 40-year-old woman. Subsequent memorial and obituary postings continued to identify the date, place, and manner of death, but publicly available news accounts did not report a later verdict or sentence in this case.
