{"id":22527,"date":"2016-11-02T21:09:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T04:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/prosecutors-upgrade-charges-in-officers-death\/"},"modified":"2016-11-02T21:09:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T04:09:40","slug":"prosecutors-upgrade-charges-in-officers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/prosecutors-upgrade-charges-in-officers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors upgrade charges in officer&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE<\/strong> \u2014 The man charged in the shooting of a Fairbanks police officer now faces upgraded charges that include murder.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Jenkins-Alexie faces additional charges of first- and second-degree murder in the death of Sgt. Allen Brandt, an 11-year police veteran and father of four.<\/p>\n<p>Brandt died Friday in Anchorage after complications from surgery.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 16, Brandt was responding to calls of shots fired near downtown Fairbanks. Brandt stopped his patrol car when he saw Jenkins-Alexie walking toward him, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins-Alexie pulled a gun from his coat and fired on Brandt as he tried to take refuge behind his car, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Brandt was struck six times.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins-Alexie, 29, was charged Oct. 19 with attempted murder and six other felonies.<\/p>\n<p>Brandt\u2019s body was flown Tuesday to Fairbanks. A funeral is planned for Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 The man charged in the shooting of a Fairbanks police officer now faces upgraded charges that include murder. Anthony Jenkins-Alexie faces additional charges of first- and second-degree murder in the death of Sgt. Allen Brandt, an 11-year police veteran and father of four. Brandt died Friday in Anchorage after complications from surgery. On [&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-22527","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\/22527","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=22527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22527"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}