Do you know who murdered Louis DeJesus III? African-American/Black male, age 21, Louis DeJesus III died on October 12, 2002, in Anchorage, Alaska. Just before 2:00 a.m., an argument in the parking lot of the VFW club in the Muldoon area—101 Oklahoma Street—erupted into gunfire. In the chaos, the 21-year-old was shot, and two other people were wounded. The scene was a crowded late-night gathering that fractured in seconds, leaving friends and bystanders scrambling for cover as the sound of shots rolled across the lot.
The 21-year-old was taken to Alaska Regional Hospital, where he died of a gunshot wound later that day. In the days that followed, family and friends honored the 21-year-old's life in services noted in the local obituary pages, even as detectives began piecing together the sequence of the fight and the flurry of shots that ended it.
Detectives marked the case under Anchorage Police Department number 02-56430 and canvassed for witnesses from the VFW crowd, working through competing memories of a brief, violent argument that turned deadly. Despite multiple people present and two surviving victims, investigators did not announce an arrest, and no suspect name emerged publicly. The case remained open, with police and Crime Stoppers continuing to ask anyone with knowledge of the shooter to come forward.
Years later, summaries of Anchorage cold cases still describe the 21-year-old's killing as an unsolved shooting tied to that parking-lot dispute, repeating the same core details—the Muldoon VFW address, the pre-dawn timing, and the unanswered question of who fired the fatal shots. The absence of an arrest left loved ones and investigators with only the skeletal outline of a night cut short, and a file that depends on the memory of witnesses and the conscience of those who know what happened.
