White/Caucasian male Daniel McCreadie, age 31, was killed on September 12, 2017, during a triple homicide inside The Bullion Brothers, a precious-metals shop on Spenard Road in Anchorage. That afternoon's gunfire left three men dead: co-owner Steven Cook, 31; Kenneth Hartman, 48; and Daniel McCreadie, 31. The case quickly drew citywide attention for the brutality of the scene and for the lone survivor, Michael DuPree, who would later become a key eyewitness.
Investigators identified Anthony Michael Pisano as the suspect and, according to a criminal complaint released soon after the killings, he told police he had been present during a shootout and insisted he acted in self-defense. From the outset, authorities treated the event as a homicide investigation centered on what happened inside the gold shop that day.
The path to accountability stretched on for years. A first trial in 2020 ended without a unanimous verdict. A second trial began in August 2023; on November 6, 2023, an Anchorage jury found Pisano guilty on ten counts, including the first-degree murders of Steven Cook, 31, Daniel McCreadie, 31, and Kenneth Hartman, 48, and the assault of surviving eyewitness Michael DuPree, who was 26 at the time. Jurors heard extensive evidence as prosecutors argued that Pisano, recently retired and more than $90,000 in credit-card debt, had staged a botched robbery, while the defense claimed DuPree fired first and that Pisano shot two of the men in self-defense. The jury rejected the self-defense narrative.
At sentencing on May 23, 2024, Alaska Superior Court Judge Jack McKenna imposed a 300-year sentence—the maximum allowable—reflecting three 99-year terms for each murder and additional time for the assault on DuPree. In explaining the severity, the court cited evidence that between the two trials Pisano solicited another inmate to kill DuPree, and concluded that Pisano would have killed anyone in his path of escape that day. The sentence closed a long chapter for the families of the victims and affirmed the arrests and prosecution that followed the killings.
Obituaries and memorials later marked the life of Daniel McCreadie, age 31, noting his death in Anchorage on September 12, 2017, and the community that gathered to mourn him in the days that followed. The formal record—arrest, trial, conviction, and sentencing—now stands beside those remembrances, fixing in public memory how a single afternoon in a small Spenard shop tore through families and a city, and how the legal system eventually named a culprit and imposed its heaviest judgment.
