On the night of December 24, 2018, Alaska State Troopers answered a shots-fired disturbance at a home off South Outrigger Drive, southwest of Wasilla. Inside, 51-year-old white male Julian Myers was found dead from a gunshot wound. Troopers’ early reports described a cooperative shooter who remained at the scene while next of kin were notified and the home was secured.

In the days after the shooting, the death was logged publicly as a Christmas Eve homicide and the victim’s name appeared in remembrances and burial records tying him to a Palmer cemetery plot. Months later a Palmer grand jury indicted 23-year-old Mark Myers, identified as the victim’s son, on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of manslaughter; troopers arrested him and custody records placed him at the Mat-Su Pretrial facility. The case record therefore moves from an initial disturbance call to a prosecuted homicide with an identified suspect and arrest.

If anyone knew Julian Myers or was in the South Outrigger Drive area that night, please share what was seen or heard.