Black/African American male Abraham Lincoln Midgett III, 54, was killed in the quiet, predawn hours of March 20, 2015, in Anchorage's Fairview neighborhood. Just before 4 a.m., reports of gunfire drew officers to the area of East 12th Avenue and Hyder Street, where they found the 54-year-old unconscious in the parking lot of Alexander's Body Shop. He was rushed to a local hospital and pronounced dead, the ninth homicide in the city that year, as detectives began piecing together those final
minutes.
From the outset, police described the death as a shooting and opened a homicide investigation. In the immediate aftermath, authorities said no arrests had been made and no charges had been filed, and they asked anyone who had heard or seen something in the early-morning chaos to come forward. The scene—an empty lot lit by shop lights and sirens—left little to the public beyond a time, a place, and the certainty that a 54-year-old man's life had ended there.
Months later, on September 23, 2015, investigators released surveillance footage and appealed for help identifying a person of interest tied to the shooting. That public plea marked a turning point in the search for answers, but there have been no subsequent public announcements of an arrest in connection with the killing, and the department continued to seek information from witnesses who might recognize the figure in the video or recall details from that morning.
Public records and obituaries anchor the contours of his life: Abraham Lincoln Midgett III was born on December 3, 1960, and made his home in Anchorage. Notices published in the days after his death confirmed his age, name, and the date of his passing, while family memorials and grave records marked the loss felt far beyond the city block where the gunfire sounded.
