White/Caucasian male Justin Labrado, age 51, was fatally shot on January 9, 2022, in the remote community of Point Lay, Alaska. North Slope Borough police were called to a home around 4:20 p.m.; when officers arrived, they found the 51-year-old man with a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Point Lay sits roughly 300 miles southwest of Utqiagvik on Alaska's North Slope, where the borough police provide local law enforcement.
Authorities identified a suspect soon after the shooting. Leefisher Tukrook, 27, was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder in the death of the 51-year-old man. He was arraigned the following Tuesday, with bail set at $500,000, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for February 10 at the Utqiagvik courthouse. These charging details were drawn from contemporaneous reporting based on police and court records.
Publicly available incident logs and memorial listings recorded the killing and corroborated the basic timeline and location. The Gun Violence Archive indexed the January 9, 2022 incident in Point Lay, while a remembrance page noted the victim by name and age as having been lost to gun violence that day in Point Lay.
Beyond the initial arrest and the murder charge against the 27-year-old suspect, no further publicly reported outcomes of the case—such as later court rulings, a plea, or a trial verdict—were found in accessible summaries. The core facts remain: a 51-year-old man was shot and killed in his Point Lay home on January 9, 2022, and a 27-year-old man was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with his death.
