Hours after the early morning shooting outside a duplex on 36th Ave. near Muldoon, police were still at the scene trying to figure out what led to the killing of a 17-year-old girl.

"We got a call about a loud party at this residence this morning about 1 a.m.," said Anchorage Police Lt. Dave Parker.

But neighbors say police took over an hour to respond to multiple complaints about the party.

"There was screaming and yelling around 2 a.m.," said one neighbor who didn't want to be identified. "It sounded like they were getting in a fight."

"About 2:15 a.m. we got calls that shots had been fired here," Parker said.

Police finally showed up after shots were fired.

"I sat down on the couch and all of a sudden just pop-pop-pop sounded like firecrackers," the neighbor said.

It was too late for 17-year-old Desirae Douglas. She was dead in the yard by the time officers arrived.

"That girl was just laying there bleeding the whole time," the neighbor said. "And they're all drunk over there, they're all minors. None of them know how to perform C.P.R."

The neighbor said since the family who was hosting the party moved in about a year ago it has been non-stop commotion from that house.

"The mother doesn't even do anything about," they said. "She just lets her minor children have all these parties, they're running around the yard with guns, patrone bottles, they're smoking weed you can smell all the way from our house. "It's just absolutely ridiculous that

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parents would allow their minors to do something like that."

The neighbor said if APD had responded after the first call the shooting never would have happened.

"APD's slow time response it's just unacceptable," they said.

But Anchorage Police say they were overloaded with calls and it went to the end of the line.

"It was prioritized as a call and we had six others of those since 9 p.m., Friday," Parker said.

But both sides agree this never should have happened.

"This is a neighborhood," Parker said. "And these kinds of things shouldn't happen anywhere, but especially not in a neighborhood where people are living there are neighbors nearby."

Police have not identified any suspects. If you have any information you are asked to call Anchorage Police at 786-8900 or CrimeStoppers where you can remain anonymous and possibly qualify for a cash reward at 561-STOP (7867).

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