Update, Wednesday:
Jalonni M. Blackshear has been arrested in New York state, Anchorage police said in a statement late Wednesday morning.
Police have named Blackshear as a “person of interest” in the investigation in a double homicide in Anchorage. The investigation launched after officers on Friday discovered the bodies of a 35-year-old woman and a 14-year-old girl in a home on the city’s east side.
Anchorage police released no further details on Blackshear’s arrest.
NBC New York reported Blackshear was arrested in Staten Island after agents with Homeland Security Investigations and New York Police City Department tracked him to a home there.
Original story, Tuesday:
Anchorage police are looking for a man linked to a double homicide after discovering the bodies of a 35-year-old woman and a 14-year-old girl on Friday.
Police described 39-year-old Jalonni M. Blackshear as a “person of interest” in the investigation and said he is considered armed and dangerous. Blackshear is thought to have fled from Alaska, according to a police statement.
Police were asked to perform a welfare check at a home on the city’s east side Friday afternoon, and that’s when officers found the victims’ bodies, according to an initial statement about the case that police issued Friday.
On Saturday, in a separate statement that did not mention the homicide, police said they were looking for Blackshear because he had outstanding warrants for his arrest and that he was thought to be traveling on the East Coast.
A police statement Tuesday connected Blackshear to the double homicide, but because Blackshear is related to the two homicide victims and the case involved domestic violence, police said they are not publicly identifying the victims.
Police described Blackshear as 5-foot-10 and 250 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call Anchorage police at 907-786-8900.
Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him at cgrove@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Casey here.
