An Anchorage jury this week found a man guilty of murder in the deaths of two people who prosecutors said he shot at a downtown apartment building last October.
Mario Jackson, 36, killed Bobby Deloach and an adult female whose name Anchorage police did not publicly release when he shot both victims multiple times at point-blank range on Oct. 17 of last year around East Seventh Avenue and Barrow Street, prosecutors said.
On Thursday, an Anchorage Superior Court jury found Jackson guilty on the six charges — two counts of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder — that he faced in connection to the deaths, according to court records.
Jackson, who has denied being involved in the shooting, was friends with both victims, according to court documents. Police said they believed Jackson and the female victim had been in a domestic relationship. The Anchorage Police Department said it would not disclose the woman’s name due to its policy of not naming victims of domestic violence, a policy APD said it was reversing about two months earlier.
The shootings were part of a flash of violence in Anchorage that day that left another person dead after a North Star neighborhood stabbing and led the Anchorage Police Department to temporarily increase its presence throughout the city.
In the initial charging document, prosecutors said security video from the apartment building where the shooting occurred showed Jackson, while wearing distinctive clothing and carrying a large speaker, shooting the victims — who can both be heard calling the shooter “Mario.” Jackson then drove off on an electric scooter or bicycle, according to the charging document.
Security video from a downtown smoke shop he stopped at earlier in the day also showed Jackson wearing the same clothing while carrying the same speaker seen at the scene of the shooting, prosecutors said.
After investigators identified Jackson as a possible suspect, they reviewed video footage from the Fairview hotel where he worked and was residing that showed him in similar clothing to the shooter from the apartment building footage while also carrying a distinctive speaker and riding an electric scooter or bike, according to charging document.
Prosecutors said officers found in his room the same brand and caliber of ammunition as the casings found at the scene of the shooting.
Police located Jackson the day after the shooting on an electric scooter or bike that had recently been spray-painted, according to prosecutors.
As of Friday afternoon, an online jail roster listed Jackson as being jailed at the Cook Inlet Pretrial facility at the Anchorage Correctional Complex.
Jackson is scheduled to be sentenced by Anchorage Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna in October, according to court records.