Alaska Native male Tupou Satini, Jr., age 40, was found late on the night of November 8, 2018, lying in the roadway near East 8th Avenue and Bragaw Street in Anchorage. Officers who arrived around 11:20 p.m. saw that the 40-year-old man had injuries consistent with a violent assault and rushed him to the hospital. Through the night his condition remained grave, and on November 9, 2018, the 40-year-old succumbed to his injuries.
The spot where he was discovered, a stretch of East 8th Avenue in East Anchorage, became the center of a homicide investigation as detectives retraced his final moments and canvassed the neighborhood for witnesses and surveillance footage.
As the days turned into months, investigators built their case. In August 2019, after a nine-month investigation, a grand jury indicted a 47-year-old Anchorage man, Jeffery Schubauer, in connection with the death of the 40-year-old. The indictment charged him with second-degree murder and manslaughter. Court proceedings quickly followed, and at arraignment the judge set bail at $200,000 cash only. The portrait of the suspect that emerged in public records depicted a man already under felony probation in separate cases at the time, details that underscored the gravity of the charges he now faced for the fatal assault that ended the life of the 40-year-old.
From the earliest hours of the case, the narrative remained stark and simple: a 40-year-old male discovered bleeding in the street, a desperate overnight fight for his life, and then a homicide inquiry that culminated in an arrest and indictment. Public memorial listings placed the 40-year-old's date of death on November 9, 2018, in Anchorage and noted his burial in the city's Memorial Park Cemetery, closing the circle geographically on a life that ended within the community where he had lived.
