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Lora Brady

Age : 53

Gender : Female

Race : Native Alaskan

Date : 08/18/2026

Location : Adelaide Apartments, 200 block of East 9th Avenue

City : Anchorage

County : Anchorage

State : Alaska

Agency : Anchorage Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during mental health crisis and SWAT standoff

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 08/18/2026, an unidentified woman was shot and killed by an Anchorage Police Department officer during a mental health crisis and approximately hour-long standoff at The Adelaide, a supportive-housing complex for formerly homeless people in the 200 block of East Ninth Avenue in downtown Anchorage.
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At approximately 1:34 p.m., a staff member at The Adelaide called 911. Police Chief Sean Case said the caller reported that the woman was intoxicated, threatening suicide, had a firearm, and had pointed the gun at two staff members.
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Anchorage police arrived approximately six minutes later. The response included patrol officers, the department's Mobile Intervention Team, crisis negotiators, and SWAT personnel.
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By approximately 2 p.m., police had deployed a drone inside the building. The drone hovered in the third-floor hallway outside the woman's apartment door while police attempted to communicate with her.
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Police Chief Sean Case said officers outside the building could see the woman through a third-floor window. Police alleged that she repeatedly pointed the gun toward the apartment's front door and later pointed it from the window toward officers on the ground and toward nearby Denali Montessori School.
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The standoff and negotiation effort lasted approximately one hour and three minutes. Case said police established some contact with the woman during that period but characterized the communication as not meaningful.
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Denali Montessori School, directly across from The Adelaide, was being used as a polling place for Alaska's primary election. People inside the school were advised to shelter in place for roughly 40 minutes during the police operation. Students had not yet begun the new school year.
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Police alleged that at approximately 3 p.m. the woman pointed the firearm from her third-floor window toward officers below and toward the school.
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A single Anchorage police officer positioned outside the building fired a single round. The bullet struck the woman in the upper body. Police entered the apartment after the shot and found her dead.
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The incident was captured on police body-worn cameras and patrol-vehicle dash cameras. Police Chief Case said his initial public account was preliminary and that the officer who fired the fatal shot had not yet been interviewed when Case gave his first briefing.
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The following day, residents of The Adelaide described the woman very differently from the anonymous armed-person description in initial police reporting. Neighbor Christopher Williams described her as a sweet and kind person who shared food with neighbors and was often seen with her large dog, Hercules. Williams said he was surprised to hear police allege that she had been armed.
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Another Adelaide resident, Brandon Moore, described the police response as extensive and aggressive, recalling the block being closed and heavily equipped SWAT personnel at the scene.
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NeighborWorks Alaska, the nonprofit organization operating The Adelaide, declined to identify the woman or provide additional information, saying it would not comment on details that could affect residents, staff, or the ongoing investigation.
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As of the latest reporting located through 08/22/2026, neither Anchorage police nor local news organizations had publicly identified the woman. No reliable public identification was located through obituary, local-news, or other indexed searches.
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The Anchorage Police Department also had not publicly identified the officer who fired the fatal shot as of the latest material located.
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This incident was Anchorage's seventh police shooting of 2026 and the 19th police shooting since the beginning of 2024. Importantly, it was the city's fourth fatal police shooting of 2026; the earlier report's wording could incorrectly imply that all seven shootings were fatal.
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The shooting occurred amid continuing scrutiny of Anchorage police use of deadly force. Following a series of police shootings in 2024 and 2025, including the killings of Easter Leafa and Kristopher Handy, Anchorage officials commissioned outside reviews of APD use-of-force, de-escalation, training, and critical-incident practices.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND:
The Anchorage Police Department has not publicly identified the officer who fired the single fatal shot in the latest reporting located through 08/22/2026.
Because the officer remains unidentified, no individual disciplinary, complaint, shooting, lawsuit, or employment-history search can yet be completed.
The shooting was recorded by body-worn cameras and police-vehicle dash cameras. Chief Sean Case said the officer had not yet been interviewed when he gave the initial public briefing following the shooting.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/08/19/anchorage-police-investigate-downtown-officer-involved-shooting/
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/08/20/she-was-sweet-kind-person-adelaide-apartment-resident-describes-woman-killed-by-police-this-week/