On the night of January 12, 2021, Matthew Lundy, a 40-year-old Black male from Wasilla, Alaska, was fatally shot outside an apartment near Wasilla. Alaska State Troopers received a report around 11:30 p.m. and responded along with Wasilla police. Initial accounts noted that multiple people were present during the episode in the apartment before the shooting spilled outside. Memorial postings and trooper dispatch summaries identify Lundy as the person killed that night.
Investigators said a 35-year-old man, Matthew Sanchez, had been acting erratically in the apartment, at one point taking a gun into the bathroom while talking to himself. According to contemporaneous summaries shared from an affidavit in the case, Sanchez then held several people at gunpoint in the apartment and ultimately shot Matthew Lundy, the 40-year-old male, outside.
Authorities identified Matthew Sanchez as the suspect and took him into custody. Public incident records and national gun-violence tracking list him as arrested and unharmed at the scene, and local reports the following day said he faced a first-degree murder charge connected to the killing of Matthew Lundy, the 40-year-old male. Subsequent public sources do not clearly document the final disposition of the case, but the arrest and charging were reported immediately after the shooting.
