On the evening of June 6, 2023, Alaska State Troopers were called to a reported shooting in Soldotna. When they arrived around 9 p.m., they found 43-year-old Shaun Perry, a white male, deceased from a gunshot wound. Troopers said his body was sent to the State Medical Examiner's Office and next of kin were notified, while the Alaska Bureau of Investigation's Soldotna Major Crimes Unit took over an active investigation into the killing.
Public reporting in the days that followed described the case as an ongoing homicide investigation and did not announce any arrests or identify a suspect. Subsequent listings that memorialize the death corroborate the date, location, and that the 43-year-old male victim was shot and killed in Soldotna on June 6, 2023, but likewise provide no public indication of an arrested suspect.
