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Byzantium Hill

Case from Anchorage, AK dated Aug 23, 2015

Victim Details

Byzantium Hill

Male

Black / African American

Anchorage

AK

2015-08-23

19

Byzantium

Hill

litigation

07/08/2026

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Byzantium Hill, a 19-year-old Black male, died in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 23, 2015. Just before 2 a.m., neighbors near East 5th Avenue and Lane Street heard gunfire. Inside a residence, officers found the 19-year-old male critically wounded; medics rushed him to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead roughly twenty minutes later.

Detectives pieced together a harrowing home-invasion narrative. According to the initial investigation, a resident was confronted outside and forced ...
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