JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – A U.S. Army Alaska soldier was found dead in Anchorage Saturday, April 9, 2022. The death is under investigation by the Army Criminal Investigation Division and Anchorage Police Department as a homicide. Sgt. Julian Christopher Francis, 30, was an Army automated logistical specialist with the 725th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th […]
UPDATE: APD reported this weekend that Brent Smith had been redesignated as a suspect and had been taken into custody. On Monday, authorities announced that Smith had been charged with one count each of Murder I and Murder II in the death of the 30-year-old victim, now identified as Julian Francis JR. ORIGINAL: Anchorage police […]
A Soldotna man has been remanded to the Wildwood Pretrial Facility on Murder I and Assault Charges after a Tuesday morning shooting at a Soldotna residence, troopers report. Troopers were notified of a shooting at 8:19 am on Tuesday morning and immediately responded to the scene, they discovered an adult man dead from several gunshot […]
Alaska State Troopers revealed that on Wednesday a 50-year-old Tuluksak man was charged while remanded at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Correctional Center on Murder I charges following a month-long homicide investigation of a shooting in Tuluksak. Troopers traveled to the community on February 22nd after they were notified that a community resident, 73-year-old Charles Peter was found […]