On the night of December 24, 2018, Alaska State Troopers were dispatched at about 8:53 p.m. to a shots-fired disturbance at a home off South Outrigger Drive, southwest of Wasilla. Inside, they found 51-year-old white male Julian Myers dead from a gunshot wound. A suspect was quickly identified at the scene and cooperated with investigators from the Palmer unit that took lead on the case. News briefs that night noted the victim's identity and the troopers' early description of a cooperative shooter as they secured the home and notified next of kin.
In the days that followed, the killing was logged publicly as a Christmas Eve shooting death in Wasilla, and remembrances of 51-year-old male Julian Myers appeared on gun-violence memorial pages while the criminal investigation continued. Burial records later associated 51-year-old male Julian Myers with a Palmer cemetery plot, underscoring the holiday timing and the swift transition from an emergency call to a homicide file.
Months later, the case turned sharply when a Palmer grand jury indicted 23-year-old Mark Myers—identified as the victim's son—on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of manslaughter in the death of 51-year-old male Julian Myers. Alaska State Troopers arrested him after the indictment, and custody records at the time placed him at the Mat-Su Pretrial facility. Coverage emphasized that Mark Myers had remained at the scene on Christmas Eve and had cooperated during the initial phase of the investigation, but the grand jury's action shifted the posture from an open inquiry to a prosecuted homicide.
Later summaries of the case catalogued 51-year-old male Julian Myers as a resolved homicide with an identified suspect and arrest, aligning with the indictment and custody status reported by local outlets and the Alaska State Troopers' public information stream. Those entries preserve the essential contours of the story: a holiday-night disturbance call, a father found shot dead, and the subsequent arrest and charging of his son in connection with the killing.
