14-05-2025
Dog scratch sparks dispute that ends in deadly attack, Alaska officials say
A man became angry when a dog scratched his wife and later fatally shot his 20-year-old neighbor and wounded another person, Alaska prosecutors said.
David Dumpson, 31, was sentenced to 95 years in prison, with 20 years suspended, in the May 2020 shooting that killed Andrew Alston and injured Luis Ross-Rivera, the Alaska Department of Law said in a May 13 news release.
McClatchy News reached out to Dumpson's attorney May 14 and was awaiting a response.
Alston was Dumpson's neighbor in Anchorage, prosecutors said.
A dog belonging to a friend of Alston's scratched Dumpson's wife on May 24, 2020, according to prosecutors, who said police were called about the incident.
'Dumpson was angry at his neighbors' and yelled slurs, prosecutors said, adding that he later got a hold of a gun.
That evening, Alston and Ross-Rivera, who was 21 at the time, came back home, and 'Dumpson again called them derogatory names,' prosecutors said.
Dumpson and Ross-Rivera started fighting, 'and Dumpson shot Ross-Rivera in the head,' prosecutors said.
Dumpson then fired at Alston, shooting him three times, walking off, and then coming 'back to shoot Alston in the head,' according to prosecutors.
Alston was trying to give aid to the wounded Ross-Rivera when he was killed, prosecutors said.
On a GoFundMe page, Alston was described by his father as 'a bright lively kid who had dreams and ambitions and was working towards them.'
He 'will be remembered by a lot of people,' his father said, adding 'he was loved by so many.'
