A young man, age 20, walked into the night on January 29, 2015, through an Anchorage parking lot—unaware that fate lurked nearby. This male victim, described as a man of unspecified ethnic background, had been carrying on with his life before gunshots echoed near the Costco at Debarr Road and Bragaw Street. At approximately 12:30 a.m., police were summoned; they found the 20-year-old male victim lifeless in the cold asphalt of the parking lot, struck fatally by bullets.
The scene spoke of sudden violence and tragedy as investigators began to piece together what had happened in those final moments of the young man's life.
Anchorage authorities launched their investigation immediately. Initially, no arrests had been made, and the homicide remained unsolved in those early hours. But the scrutiny intensified swiftly. By February 8, 2015, investigators had identified suspects: a 19-year-old named Makur Chan faced charges including two counts of second-degree murder and two of first-degree robbery—one of those murder counts connected to the shooting of the 20-year-old male victim in the Costco parking lot. Alongside Chan, an 18-year-old named Nathaniel Kile had also been charged with second-degree murder and first-degree robbery for the same fatal shooting. Both were tied to what the police described as a drug-related robbery plot that tragically claimed the life of the 20-year-old male victim amid other violent incidents unfolding around the same time.
In the days that followed, investigators sought tips from the public to unravel the full story. They invited anyone with information about the shooting that claimed this 20-year-old man's life to come forward. The unfolding narrative revealed a violent undercurrent in Anchorage at that moment—a ripple of fatal decisions that swept into the life of a young man in a parking lot, cutting short his story in a burst of gunfire and leaving a community searching for answers long into the night.
