Anchorage Mom Who Loved Alaska Aces Hockey ID'd In Las Vegas Shooting

ANCHORAGE, AK — A stay-at-home wife and mom who had a passion for the recently disbanded Alaska Aces minor league hockey team has been identified as the second Anchorage victim slain in the Las Vegas mass shooting over the weekend.

Dorene Anderson was killed Sunday night, her husband's employer said Monday. John Anderson works for the Alaska Housing Finance Corp. The CEO of that organization emailed employees Monday informing them of her death.

Anderson was a member of the Aces' "Cowbell Crew."

The Victims Of The Las Vegas Shooting

Stacy Shubert, the director of governmental relations and public affairs for the corporation, told The Associated Press that the family has requested privacy. (For more information on the Las Vegas shooting victims and other Anchorage stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

Stephen Paddock, of Mesquite, Nevada, perched 32 floors above a music festival outside the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, massacred 59 concertgoers and left another 500-plus injured under the glitz of the Las Vegas Strip, renewing the heated debate over gun control. He had an arsenal of 23 weapons.

An Anchorage fisherman with a big, hearty laugh was also slain in the shooting and a North Pole father was shot three times.

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