Michael Boyd, a 37-year-old male was found dead in the early morning hours of Saturday, November 22, 2025, in the Fairbanks area of Interior Alaska. According to Alaska State Troopers, a call came in at about 12:55 a.m. reporting a deceased man in a vehicle parked near a gas station on Farmer’s Loop Road, just outside Fairbanks. Responding troopers located Boyd in the driver’s seat of the vehicle, already deceased, and quickly classified the situation as a suspected homicide rather than a
medical emergency or accidental death.
State authorities transferred the case to the Alaska Bureau of Investigation, which took over as the lead investigative agency. Boyd’s body was sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy, and his next of kin were notified. Troopers publicly confirmed that Boyd died from a gunshot wound, and his death has been described in subsequent reporting as one of several recent firearm-related violent crimes in the Fairbanks area. A national gun-violence memorial site also lists him as a victim of gun violence on November 22, 2025, in Fairbanks.
The circumstances of the discovery have been outlined only in broad terms. Troopers have said that Boyd was found alone in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle near the gas station on Farmers Loop, and that the case is being handled as a homicide investigation. Officials have appealed to the public for help, particularly asking anyone who was driving in the Farmers Loop / Old Steese Highway area between midnight and 1 a.m. that night to share any dash-camera video or other information that could help reconstruct Boyd’s final movements or identify people who might have been nearby.
Boyd’s killing occurred during a brief but intense spike in serious violent crime in and around Fairbanks in November 2025. State officials have said that his case is one of two homicides reported within about an hour of each other that same Saturday morning, along with an earlier incident in which shots were fired at ore-hauling trucks and an unrelated teen homicide from October. In response, the Alaska Bureau of Investigation sent additional investigators and support staff from other parts of the state to Fairbanks specifically to help work Boyd’s homicide and the other open cases.
As for arrests, suspects, or persons of interest, authorities have drawn a clear distinction between Boyd’s case and another homicide from the same morning. In the separate case, involving the shooting death of a woman at an apartment off Chena Pump Road, troopers swiftly arrested 27-year-old Brooklyn Whitman and charged her with murder. By contrast, troopers and state officials have repeatedly described the homicide of Michael Boyd as unsolved and have not publicly identified any suspects, announced any arrests, or released a description of a suspect vehicle or person tied to his death as of late November 2025. They continue to ask anyone with information about Boyd’s killing to contact Alaska State Troopers, emphasizing that public tips and video footage could be crucial to moving the investigation forward.
