{"id":983,"date":"2026-09-25T16:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2026-09-25T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T16:51:24","slug":"alaska-man-accidentally-kills-girlfriend-while-playing-with-gun-then-shoots-himself-dead-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Alaska man accidentally kills girlfriend while \u2018playing\u2019 with gun \u2014then shoots himself dead: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Alaska man accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while \u201cplaying\u201d with a revolver \u2014 then found another gun and shot himself while his friend was on the phone with 911, police said.<\/p>\n

CloeRae McBrayer, 21, was killed by boyfriend Landon Lowrance, 22, last Wednesday \u2014 just days before they planned to get engaged, according to her grieving family.<\/p>\n

Lowrance \u201cshot McBrayer with a revolver while playing with the gun and pointing it at her,\u201d the Fairbanks Police Department said in a release about the \u201ctragic and preventable loss of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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CloeRae McBrayer, 21, was fatally shot on Sept. 16 by her boyfriend, Landon Lowrance, who then died by suicide, Fairbanks Police said.CloeRae McBrayer \/ Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A friend of Lowrance\u2019s immediately contacted 911 and waited on the line with dispatchers while officers responded when \u201ca disturbance could be heard in the background during the call,\u201d cops said.<\/p>\n

The unidentified friend \u201cattempted to physically intervene when Lowrance obtained another firearm and shot himself,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n

McBrayer \u2014 who was studying to be a teacher \u2014 was already dead when police arrived at the scene. A \u201ccritically injured\u201d Lowrance was rushed to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n

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McBrayer\u2019s mother, Amanda Hooper, said the couple was planning on getting engaged.CloeRae McBrayer \/ Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The caller \u201cwas interviewed by detectives and is not believed to have been involved in the shootings,\u201d police said. It was not immediately clear at whose home the double tragedy occurred.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis incident is a tragic and preventable loss of life,\u201d the department said while urging \u201ceveryone to practice firearm safety at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Alaska man accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while \u201cplaying\u201d with a revolver \u2014 then found another gun and shot himself while his friend was on the phone with 911, police said. CloeRae McBrayer, 21, was killed by boyfriend Landon Lowrance, 22, last Wednesday \u2014 just days before they planned to get engaged, according…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}