ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Two Anchorage men face more than a dozen felony and misdemeanor charges after investigators say they carried out a series of drive-by shootings Sunday afternoon in a Mountain View neighborhood that injured one man and left several others, including children, in fear for their lives.
Michel Santana and Sal Dion Gantt are charged as co-defendants and face 14 charges. The charges include first-degree assault, multiple counts of third-degree assault, weapons misconduct and criminal mischief.
Investigators say the pair discharged a firearm from a moving vehicle during at least two separate shootings that afternoon, sending bullets into occupied homes, a vehicle and through a downtown street.
According to the charging documents, Anchorage police were first dispatched shortly after 3:40 p.m. on Nov. 16 to a residence on North Klevin Street after reports of a drive-by shooting. A family was inside the home at the time, including a seven-year-old boy…