Officer Jones in Anchorage Shooting

0:00It's April 3rd. This is Anchorage News Today, your AI-powered local news. Anchorage police faced a tense shootout Saturday night with 43-year-old Micah Bonin, who died in the chaos. Cops spotted him firing from a second-story window of his home, where a fire soon broke out on that floor. Officials say he had two different caliber guns and kept shooting even after moving downstairs. An officer fired three to four rounds through a broken window and Bonin went down right after. Here this week, police chief Sean Case updated that it's still unclear if the flames or the gunshots killed Bonin. Firefighters put out the blaze that morning, and body cams caught the whole thing. No one else was in the house, and Cops believed Bonin started to fire himself. The officer who fired, Jacob Jones, is no stranger to these high-stakes calls. He's a canine handler on night shift, responding to risky situations often. This year marks his third shooting in 2024-22. Officials were ruled legally justified by state prosecutors, one fatal.

1:03Jones is on four days of administrative leave now, standard procedure. The state office of special prosecutions were review if his actions hold up here too. Body cam and drone footage should drop publicly in 45-60 days, though Anchorage PD has lagged on that policy since rolling out cameras. Late last year, this was the first police shooting in Anchorage this year, after five last year with three deaths. As investigations wrap, folks are watching how it shakes out for trust in these night shift responses.