At the conclusion of the interview, Johnny Rendon, was arrested for one count of Assault 1st Degree and remanded at the Anchorage Correctional Complex.

Officers responded to Rendon’s location and transported him to the Anchorage Police Department to be interviewed by detectives. Through the course of the investigation, detectives determined the stabbing suspect was 48-year-old Johnny Rendon and received information of his whereabouts. She is being sought out as a victim only. Police do not believe she had any involvement in the altercation itself. Police are asking for that woman, or anyone who may know her identify, to contact APD Dispatch at 3-1-1 (option #1) or 90 (option #0). It is believed that while the suspect was assaulting the male victim inside The Gaslight Bar, an adult female standing nearby may have been inadvertently cut by the suspect’s knife. An APD spokesperson declined to comment Thursday on the condition of the surviving victim and would not say whether Musa was in custody elsewhere or provide a photo of him.Ĭourt records show a warrant issued on Tuesday for Njie’s arrest, with no bail permitted until he has appeared in court.The second assault victim has contacted police.Īs the investigation has progressed, APD detectives have learned of an additional victim. Njie was not listed in custody in Alaska Friday. 31 flight out of town, with surveillance video showing him being dropped off by a taxi cab at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. They also learned that Njie had taken a Jan. The charges say police were later able to identify Njie – who is also a suspect in a December forgery case being investigated by APD – from DMV photos, social media accounts and witness accounts. The witness described the suspect as an African American man standing about 6 feet, 2 inches tall, with thick shoulder-length dreadlocks and a goatee. Talo didn’t have a gun, according to the second witness. The shooter walked away and then grabbed the gun, possibly from the car, and shot four times.” “Talo and the suspect almost got into a fight but didn’t. “(The witness) heard Talo say, ‘do not disrespect my father like that’ and Talo’s father was trying to pull Talo away,” police wrote in the charging document. Another witness said the suspect, later identified by police as Njie, knew both Talo and his father, who was also present. One witness said Talo had slapped a cup of coffee out of the suspect’s hand during the encounter. Police spoke with several witnesses and viewed multiple cellphone videos of the incident. Surveillance video of the parking lot recorded an argument outside just before the gunfire, according to the charges. They also tried to transport Talo, but he died at the scene. Responding medics found the wounded man, who had been shot twice in the torso, and took him to a local hospital. A charging document, written by an Anchorage Police Department detective, reveals what investigators believe happened that night.Īccording to the charges, a 911 call reported the shooting, in the north parking lot of the Gaslight Lounge, at about 3:20 a.m. 28, and prosecutors just filed the murder charges against Njie on Tuesday.

Njie is also charged with first-degree and second-degree attempted murder in the shooting of a second victim, who was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. (Hannah Lies/Alaska Public Media)Ī man has been charged with murdering one person and severely wounding a second during a downtown Anchorage parking-lot shooting in late January, before allegedly fleeing town.Ĭourt records show Musa Njie, 23, faces first-degree and second-degree counts of murder in the death of 21-year-old Louis Talo.

The Anchorage Police Department’s headquarters in downtown Anchorage on a sunny day in late May.

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