A state investigation released Wednesday 'generally corroborated' officers' accounts of events leading up to Handy's May 13 shooting.
An enlargement of a still taken from an Anchorage police vehicle’s dashboard camera, showing Kristopher Handy holding a shotgun in his right hand moments before officers shot and killed him on May 13, 2024.
In the 21-page letter, Senior Assistant Attorney General John Darnall includes previously unreleased information on the events leading up to the shooting, as well as imagery of Handy from a police car’s dashboard camera just before he was shot. But as officers headed to the apartment complex on Bearfoot Drive, off Northwood Street near Strawberry Road, dispatchers told them that the man – later identified as Handy – had left the building carrying a long gun.The Office of Special Prosecutions report notes that officers used a public address system on a police vehicle to repeatedly order Handy out of the apartment with his hands up, and to drop his weapon. Handy ignored the commands and strode toward the officers, shotgun in hand.
According to Darnall’s letter, Handy’s girlfriend later told police he had an argument with his mother, then got a shotgun and started drinking. She said that she had tried to talk Handy down, but that he said, “No, screw it, I want you to watch when they mow me down.” She said Handy had taken off his shirt and stepped outside “screaming and hollering” as he awaited police. She had just convinced him to come inside when police responded.
Darnall said Handy then moved “rapidly and purposefully” along the walkway and down a set of stairs, at one point facing other officers who were trying to flank his position.
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