Anchorage police tie gun used to shoot officer to 5 killings
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The handgun used to wound an Anchorage police officer last weekend has been linked to five previously unsolved homicides this year in Alaska’s largest city, police said Tuesday.
Lt. John McKinnon, head of the city police’s homicide division, said the Colt Python .357 revolver was linked through ballistics to two double homicides and one other killing.
“It is just heartbreaking,” Anchorage Police Chief Chris Tolley told reporters.
The gun was used by James Dale Ritchie, 40, early Saturday morning to ambush police officer Arn Salao, who was responding to a report that a man hadn’t paid a cab fare.