Do you know who murdered Laron Roberts? Black male Laron Roberts, age 36, was found late on the morning of April 28, 2019, inside a parked vehicle along the 1000 block of East 20th Avenue in Anchorage, near Woodside Park by Chester Creek. Police were called at approximately 10:13 a.m., and responding officers located the 36-year-old deceased in the car. Observations at the scene prompted detectives and the Crime Scene Team to respond.
The medical examiner's determination and police updates that day made clear he had been shot in the upper body. Next of kin were notified, and the case was classified as a homicide.
By the following days, authorities publicly identified the victim as Laron Roberts and asked anyone with information or surveillance footage from the area to come forward. Local coverage reiterated the timeline and location, noting that the vehicle was found along the edge of the parkland and that the wound to Roberts's upper body was consistent with a fatal shooting. Memorial posts and community pages marked his death on April 28, 2019, listing his age as 36.
In the weeks that followed, Anchorage's overall homicide toll drew attention, but there was no announcement of an arrest specific to this case. Citywide reporting at the start of May 2019 indicated that police had secured arrests in some of that year's killings, yet appeals for tips in Roberts's homicide remained active, and later write-ups continued to describe his death as unsolved. Through it all, the core facts held steady: the 36-year-old was discovered in a car on East 20th Avenue, shot to death, and authorities continued to seek leads on a suspect or suspects.
