The police said they were shot and killed by the APD officer.

A 41-year-old man who was shot by an anchorage police officer after a traffic stop at the beginning of this month was the brother of a man who was killed in a patient situation with the police in February, confirmed on Thursday.

Utuva Alaelua had a gun on his lap when he was stopped for a traffic stop on May 12, and first followed the police commands to raise his weapons before reaching for the weapon, Sean Case, head of the police authority, said at a briefing on Wednesday. Alaelua was shot by an anchorage police officer by a policeman identified as Carter Mayes, which made him the third person who was shot by the police in 2025.

His brother Puipuia Lipoi Alaelua was the second and was shot with civil servants on February 21 during a Midtown Hotel -Watstitual.

In an briefing on the incident of May 12th in the APD headquarters on Thursday morning, case, such as an incident that began with a traffic stop over a broken headlight based on a check of the camera carried out with body:

An official drove at 11:37 p.m. on May 12th on the 300 block of the Bragaw Street in Mountain View via Utuva Alaelua. A second officer was called for the backup.

A department analysis in 2024 of the use of power incidents showed that about 9% of all incidents in which officials fired a weapon began with a traffic stop, the third most common scenario behind weapons deficiency and calls from domestic violence.

The official approached the car from the passenger side and asked the driver if he had weapons in the vehicle. Alaelua, the driver, said no according to the case.

At some point the second officer opened the door at the door of the driver's door and saw what Case said a pistol in Alaelua's lap.

At the briefing, Case showed a quiet picture of an apparently silver object on the lap of a person, of whom he said that he was taken from body -based camera shells. At this point, according to the police chief, the officials have opposed their weapons.

The officer on the passenger side identified by the department as Carter Mayes then asked the driver to put his hands up.

Alaelua initially voted in and put both hands up, said Case. He had a cell phone in his right hand.

“In the video you can see both hands of the topic,” said Case.

Then, Case claims, the driver's left hand moved to his lap towards the weapon.

“The question is what exactly happens,” he said. “Does he touch the gun? Does he take the gun?”

Mayes then shot Alaelua and killed him, according to the police.

It was not exactly clear which command Alaelua was granted the moment he was shot.

Body camera shots of the incident of May 12 have not yet been released. It is a lower solution and more difficult to see what happens than in other cases, said Case.

The police did not mention what the witness reported on the vehicle seat of the vehicle during the incident.

Mayes had also fired his weapon in 2022 in the Centennial Park, in which Iese Gali Jr., 33, was shot and injured and shot by officials. Gali Jr. and the officer both survived; Gali was charged with attempted murder.

The Anchorage police authority in the past had contact Alaelua in the past, but did not check his identification during the incident or knew in other ways – or that his brother was killed by officials from the same department in February, Fall said on Wednesday.

Alaelua's brother Puipuia Lipoi Alaelua was killed by the police on February 21 during a patting situation by Midtown Anchorage Hotel. In this incident, Alaelua had barricaded herself in a room with a woman and four children. The police opened the body camera, which showed him that he was shooting through the door and used the woman and a baby as a human shield when the police entered.

The office for special persecution was the application of fatal violence against Puipuia Lipoi Alaelua, which was justified in the same week in which Utuva Alaelua was shot.

The Office for Special Strengths will also check the shootout of May 12, including the surveyor and witnesses, to determine whether the civil servant's actions were legally justified.

Since the beginning of the reviews in 2009, the office has not recommended criminal complaints for a police officer for fatal use of cans.