{"id":6221,"date":"2016-09-13T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/sketch-of-person-of-interest-in-anchorage-slaying-released\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T08:01:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T15:01:07","slug":"sketch-of-person-of-interest-in-anchorage-slaying-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/sketch-of-person-of-interest-in-anchorage-slaying-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of person of interest in Anchorage slaying released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE<\/strong> \u2014 Anchorage police released a sketch of someone who may have information about one of a series of slayings across the city this year in the hope the public will know who or where the person is.<\/p>\n<p>They are a person of interest in the death of Treyveonkindell Thompson, who was shot several times on July 29. The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the conviction of Thompson\u2019s killer.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, who was riding his bicycle when he was shot, is one of 25 people killed this year in Anchorage, police say. The bike was missing from the crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTreyveonkindell grew up in Anchorage and was getting ready to join the U.S. military,\u201d the police department said in statement Sunday. \u201cHis mother describes him of having an easygoing attitude and a huge heart filled with compassion. He had a unique way of bringing joy to others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police have declined to say whether the person of interest in Thompson\u2019s case has been linked to any of the other killings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not here today to speculate about other cases,\u201d Sgt. Slawomir Markiewicz told KTUU-TV on Sunday. \u201cI know we have certain unsolved cases and we are working in different degrees in solving them. Tonight we are specifically targeting this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nine of the 25 slayings have not been solved. Charges have been filed or arrests made in 11 cases, and police have identified a suspect in three other cases. In another case, the suspect died.<\/p>\n<p>Anchorage is on track to have its deadliest year since 1995, when 29 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Police issued an unusual public advisory late last month urging residents to be \u201cextra aware\u201d of their surroundings, noting that crimes often increase at night and early in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Anchorage police released a sketch of someone who may have information about one of a series of slayings across the city this year in the hope the public will know who or where the person is. They are a person of interest in the death of Treyveonkindell Thompson, who was shot several times [&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-6221","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\/6221","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=6221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6221"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}