White/Caucasian male Phillip Gray, age 76, was found dead in Wasilla, Alaska, on Sunday, April 5, 2015. Troopers were called just after midday and located him off Horizon Drive at 12:42 p.m. His body was sent to the State Medical Examiner's office in Anchorage for autopsy, and next of kin were notified, the kind of swift, procedural cadence that often follows sudden violence in a quiet Mat-Su neighborhood.
By nightfall the same day, investigators had identified and arrested a suspect.
Troopers took 27-year-old April Cox into custody less than ten hours after Phillip Gray, age 76 and male, was discovered and charged her with second-degree murder. The arrest punctuated a day that began with a grim call and ended with a booking, as the case shifted from discovery to accusation in a matter of hours.
Public records that track shootings list the Wasilla incident on April 5, 2015, confirming the fatality and location, while community memorial pages mark Phillip Gray, age 76 and male, as “lost to gun violence” that day in Wasilla. These entries don't add narrative color so much as they anchor dates and places, reinforcing the bare facts that investigators and courts must later turn into findings.
In the immediate aftermath, authorities said the investigation was ongoing and released no further details about motive or circumstances. There was no publicly available resolution in those initial reports beyond the murder charge against the arrested Wasilla woman; official dispatches emphasized that more information would follow only after standard steps like the autopsy and family notifications. As the file moved from troopers' hands toward prosecutors, the story of Phillip Gray, age 76 and male, remained, for the public, a set of stark contours: a quiet Sunday disturbed, a body found, and a swift arrest that left questions hanging in the Alaska air.
