Anchorage man faces murder charges connected to 2018 shooting in Spenard.
An Anchorage man was indicted Friday for his role in a 2018 robbery and shooting that left one man dead.On Jan. 28, 2018, police were called to a mobile home at Penguin Trailer Court in Anchorage’s Spenard neighborhood on a report of gunfire. Once there, officers found 52-year-old Carl Bowie dead, according to a bail memorandum filed by Assistant District Attorney Daniel Shorey.
Tristan Grant, Austin Cottrell, Linda Richards and several others had gone to the mobile home that day and planned to rob a different man, the memorandum said. Richards told police that they pulled Bowie into her van because they had initially believed he was the man they were looking for, the memorandum said, but once he was in the vehicle she realized he was not. They took jewelry from Bowie, and he told them he had money and drugs inside the trailer.
Richards told police that the rest of the people in the van got out while she remained behind and then she heard gunshots, according to the memorandum. She started to drive away but Grant and possibly someone else jumped into the van, the memorandum said.