A 20-year-old man has died following a shooting inside the Walmart Supercenter in Midtown Anchorage on Monday afternoon, according to the Anchorage Police Department (APD).
Police identified the victim as Julius Reape and confirmed that his next of kin have been notified. Officers responded to reports of gunfire just before 2 p.m. at the store located on A Street near Benson Boulevard.
According to investigators, two men who knew each other were involved in a verbal exchange near the store’s entrance before one of them fired multiple shots. Reape was struck in the upper body and transported to the hospital, where he died while undergoing surgery…