{"id":12793,"date":"2016-08-08T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/fatal-crash-shooting-closes-lanes-of-busy-anchorage-street\/"},"modified":"2016-08-08T08:01:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T15:01:43","slug":"fatal-crash-shooting-closes-lanes-of-busy-anchorage-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/fatal-crash-shooting-closes-lanes-of-busy-anchorage-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash, shooting closes lanes of busy Anchorage street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>Anchorage police closed lanes of one of the city\u2019s busiest streets Friday as they investigated a fatal crash and a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Police just after 3 a.m. took a call of a two-car crash on east Fifth Avenue at Concrete Street near Merrill Field.<\/p>\n<p>A man was ejected from one of the vehicles. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition and he later died. The man has not been positively identified.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they found evidence of a shooting in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>They are trying to determine whether the shooting was a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Police closed westbound lanes of Fifth Avenue from Karluk Street to Reeve Boulevard as they investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Anchorage police closed lanes of one of the city\u2019s busiest streets Friday as they investigated a fatal crash and a shooting. Police just after 3 a.m. took a call of a two-car crash on east Fifth Avenue at Concrete Street near Merrill Field. A man was ejected from one of the vehicles. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12793"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}