Police issued an arrest warrant for the man who fled a Sand Lake apartment Saturday after his grandmother found a body in a freezer.
Elmer Seetot, 22, is wanted for second-degree murder, Anchorage Police Department spokesman Paul Honeman said Sunday.
The homicide is Anchorage’s 21st of the year, Honeman said. The victim hadn’t been identified as of early Sunday evening, although Honeman said it’s a man.
“Could be Native, could be black,” he said.
The body was found in the West 69th Avenue apartment of Ruth Seetot, the grandmother of the wanted man, according to a woman who lives nearby and a man who said he is Elmer Seetot’s friend.
Elmer Seetot was a frequent visitor and was at the apartment Saturday when his grandmother opened a freezer chest and discovered a body wrapped in plastic, police said. Seetot told his grandmother he was sorry and ran from the apartment, police said.
Seetot’s criminal history includes a number of assault and criminal mischief convictions, according to a database of public records.
“I’ve been friends with Elmer for about six months, and he’s been hanging out at my house,” said Anthony Conger. “He told me this was the longest he’d been out of jail his entire life.”
