A 27-year-old Black male, Christian Haynes, was found shot in the early hours of January 27, 2015, inside an apartment building in East Anchorage. Police said gunfire erupted around 3:30 a.m. on the 6000 block of East 41st Court; Haynes died at the scene. A 23-year-old woman inside the apartment—later identified as Krystal Elizabeth Hawk—was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead not long after.
Detectives canvassed the building and interviewed witnesses while the neighborhood awoke to the aftermath of a double homicide that marked another violent turn in a tense week.
In the days that followed, investigators publicly appealed for tips as they worked to piece together what had happened and why. Obituaries later captured parts of the 27-year-old man's life that the headlines could not: born February 1, 1987, he had served in the U.S. Army with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in Anchorage he worked as a barber, a young father remembered by family and friends for his steadiness and care. Those personal details filtered into view even as the official case remained open and the community waited for answers.
By late summer, a break arrived. On August 30, 2015, Anchorage police announced the arrest of 22-year-old Michael Dorell Kelvin Reynold, known as “Boogie,” charging him with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the 27-year-old man and Hawk, along with tampering with physical evidence. The department said additional information would follow as facts were confirmed, signaling that while a suspect was in custody, the wider investigation continued to unfold through witness statements and forensic work.
Court filings and federal summaries later sketched a broader context of retaliatory violence swirling around the days before the killings. According to a Justice Department account of related prosecutions, a home invasion on January 24, 2015 targeted the 27-year-old man's residence on Reka Drive; gunmen forced their way in, fired repeatedly, and assaulted a child, and a drive-by shooting later that same night appeared to be retaliation. The double homicide in East Anchorage came next, the final and most devastating act in a short, brutal chain.
