White/Caucasian male Kenneth Joseph Hartman, 48, died on September 12, 2017, in Anchorage, Alaska, during a triple homicide at The Bullion Brothers, a precious-metals shop on Spenard Road. The shootings also took the lives of Steven Cook, 31, and Daniel McCreadie, 31. Police identified the victims that day after next-of-kin notifications, confirming Hartman, 48, among the dead at the scene.
Investigators determined the violence unfolded inside the store and spilled into the entryway as shots rang out. According to charging documents summarized in contemporaneous reporting, an eyewitness, Michael Dupree, survived an assault amid the gunfire; he told police he wrested away one firearm and ran, after which the shooter used another gun—possibly belonging to Cook—to shoot McCreadie and Hartman as they came in from nearby apartments after hearing the first shots. The suspect phoned authorities and surrendered the following day; police publicly named him as 43-year-old Anthony Pisano.
Anchorage police announced Pisano's arrest and said he faced three counts of first-degree murder. As the case moved forward, a jury later heard weeks of testimony in 2023 and returned guilty verdicts on ten counts, including the intentional murders of Steven Cook, Daniel McCreadie, and Kenneth Hartman, 48, as well as the assault on eyewitness Michael Dupree. State and local authorities detailed how the second trial concluded with convictions after lengthy proceedings.
In 2024, a judge imposed what officials described as the maximum allowable sentence: 300 years in prison—three 99-year terms for each murder, plus additional time for the assault on Dupree, with part of that term running concurrently. Authorities emphasized in their summary that the sentence closed a case that had reverberated through the Spenard neighborhood since September 2017.
Beyond the case file and courtroom, remembrances marked Kenneth Joseph Hartman's life: an Alaska resident born in 1968, he was 48 at the time of his death and memorialized by family and friends in Anchorage days after the killings.
