Photo by Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News Anchorage police officer John Glor carries a gas can from a wooded area near Reeve Boulevard on Friday afternoon.
Other residents accused in attack, torching evidence
By Lisa Demer Anchorage Daily News
Violence erupted this week in one of Anchorage’s biggest homeless camps, clusters of tents and tarps in Mountain View known as Veterans’ Ridge.
One man was beaten up Wednesday night and sent to the hospital. Three men are now in jail, accused of setting fire to the victim’s tent and belongings on Thursday evening. Now police and cleanup crews are preparing to clear the area of illegal campers. Some say they won’t go.
An estimated 30 to 40 tents are scattered in swampy woods just east of Reeve Boulevard near Tyson Elementary School. It’s called Veterans’ Ridge because so many veterans have come through. The city owns much of the parcel and uses part of it for a snow dump. One man being displaced said he might try to carve out a new home in the mound of dirty snow, which never melted over the summer.
The incident happened just as the city is turning its attention to the problem of homeless alcoholics. They camp from Oceanview to downtown along greenbelts, in city parks, in little patches of woods. Just last week, one of the men now accused of arson spoke about life in the camps to city officials and others touring Veterans’ Ridge.
"We’ve already had enough crime in the neighborhood and say it’s time to move them on," police Lt. Dave Parker said.
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