Confession leads to cold-case arrest in fatal 2009 shooting at Anchorage hotel

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Confession leads to cold-case arrest in fatal 2009 shooting at Anchorage hotel
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John Patrick Dahlquist, 56, was arrested last week after police say he confessed to killing Sang Chun and wounding Monte Howell at the Inlet Inn.

Anchorage police have arrested a man in a deadly cold-case shooting that happened nearly 15 years ago, after officers say he confessed last week.

The shooting was among hundreds of crimes reported at or near the inn, at the corner of 6th Avenue and H Street, leading toIn a charging document against Dahlquist, police said Howell had told them at the time that he had been working at the inn’s front desk at about 2 a.m. He said a man who first entered the hotel to use the bathroom returned and demanded money from the cash register at gunpoint, taking about $500.

“ had a deposit sketch done of the suspect, which provided more tips,” police wrote in the charging document. “owever eventually the tips stopped coming in, all leads were exhausted, and the case went cold.” During the interviews, police say, Dahlquist said that he had taken drugs and was suffering from paranoia, at one point asking an officer not to shoot him. He told police that said people he knew had asked that he confess to the shooting, charges say.

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