State prosecutors say the officers' body cameras confirmed that Tyler May aimed a pistol at them before they shot him on June 3.
A parking lot at the Anchorage Senior Activity Center on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Anchorage police say they shot and killed an armed man Monday evening near the center. they say drew a gun on them last month will not face criminal charges after body camera footage corroborated their accounts, according to the state.Thursday clearing Sgt. Jesse Frey and Officers Isaac Kimball and Nicholas Flechsing in the June 3 shooting of 21-year-old Tyler May.
May then ran from the officers, but the K-9 unit was released and bit him in the upper back, knocking him to the ground. As Frey, Kimball and Flechsing approached, they saw May roll onto his back as he struggled with the K-9 and reach into his waistband, Shorey said in the letter. Sixteen .223 shell casings were recovered from the site of the shooting. The rifles were each loaded with 30-round magazines, with 21 rounds remaining in Frey’s rifle and 25 each in Kimball’s and Flechsing’s.
May’s mother, who lived in the area, told police she last saw him about three and a half hours before he was shot. When she heard gunfire and word of a police shooting, she went to the senior center and recognized May’s body at the scene. The detained man said he didn’t see police shoot May because he was facing away at the time, but he said he flinched when he heard the gunfire and saw May’s body when officers led him to a police car.
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