ANCHORAGE — The search for a trio of potential witnesses in a fatal shooting has ended with the witnesses contacting police, said Lt. Dave Parker of the Anchorage Police Department.

The two women and one man included a former Valley woman, 19-year-old Ariel Sizemore, who was a former standout cheerleader for Wasilla High School. The other woman is 29-year-old Sineti Delara who, along with Sizemore and a man named Jeremy, reportedly left the scene Saturday morning in a green SUV, Parker said. The SUV was found Sunday morning in Anchorage, but with no sign of the witnesses.

After media attention about the police search for them, the three contacted Anchorage police, Parker said.

Ariel Sizemore

“The media blitz helped and encouraged them to get in contact with us,” he said, adding that none of them are being looked at as suspects in the death. “They’re still definitely considered only witnesses.”

Investigators are still trying to piece together what happened Saturday morning at an apartment complex on W. Dimond Boulevard, Parker said.

“They still will not be able to determine if it’s a homicide, suicide or accidental death,” he said.

Court records show numerous cases for Sizemore in the Valley and also show an Anchorage address as Sizemore’s most current known residence. Sizemore, Delara and Jeremy were identified as being at the scene, but “they apparently didn’t have anything to do with the suspicious death part, but they were there,” Parker said. “It probably freaked them out.”

Police found the body of the man, whose identity has not been released, about 8:30 a.m. Saturday after a neighbor called 911, Parker said.

“A male was outside shouting about someone having been shot,” he said. “We responded, and by the time we got there, there was only one male there and the witnesses had apparently left the area.”