White/Caucasian female Christina Jackson, age 43, was found shot inside her Wasilla, Alaska home in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, August 8, 2022. Troopers and Wasilla police raced to the address around 4 a.m. and tried to save her life, but the 43-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Word of the loss spread quickly through the Mat-Su, anchored by brief public safety summaries noting the early-morning response and confirming her death that day.
In the days that followed, friends and colleagues remembered Christina as “Chris,” a steady presence in the joint University of Alaska Anchorage–Idaho State University Doctor of Pharmacy program. Tributes from the program and local obituaries sketched a life that began in 1979, wound from New Orleans to Anchorage in the early 2000s, and centered on health care and her family until the violence that ended it. The remembrances placed her age at 43 and situated her death at home in Wasilla on August 8, 2022.
Investigators with the Alaska Bureau of Investigation's Mat-Su Major Crimes Unit moved quickly. On Thursday, August 11, 2022, they arrested Christina's husband, 49-year-old Michael Jackson, and prosecutors charged him with first- and second-degree murder. During his initial court appearances, the killing was described by the state as a domestic-violence homicide; he was ordered held at the Mat-Su Pretrial Facility on a substantial cash bond.
Court coverage over the ensuing months and years shows the case shifting from murder charges to a negotiated resolution. By late 2024, Michael Jackson had entered a guilty plea to manslaughter. In February 2025, he appeared in Palmer for a multi-day sentencing hearing on that conviction, where the court took testimony and argument about what penalty to impose for the shooting death of the 43-year-old.
The official record of Christina's death and the community's response remains visible in memorial pages and notices that echo the same facts: a 43-year-old woman killed by gunfire at home on August 8, 2022; a husband arrested within days; and a case that ultimately ended not with a murder trial, but with a manslaughter plea and sentencing proceedings in Palmer.
