A 63-year-old Filipino male caregiver named Eduardo Escalante died on the evening of August 12, 2014 in Anchorage, Alaska. He had immigrated from the Philippines only months earlier with his wife, and both found work at an assisted living facility. On that day, he was inside the facility watching television in the kitchen when gunshots rang out. He sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his neck, torso, and arm. He succumbed to those injuries on the spot.
The person who shot him was identified as Paul Miller, a 51-year-old resident of that same assisted living facility. Around **5:15 p.m.** Miller called 911 to report, “I just shot my caretaker.” When officers arrived, Miller was outside the building. They found a. 380-caliber semiautomatic handgun on the railing of the front porch. Inside the home, they found Escalante already dead.
At his first court appearance on August 13, 2014, Miller was charged with first- and second-degree murder. Bail was set at $500,000 cash. If released, he would have been required to stay away from the facility's address and forbidden from possessing firearms. Miller had a criminal history in Alaska: between 1982 and 1991 he was convicted multiple times for assault, and had other convictions including criminal trespassing, disorderly conduct, driving while intoxicated, and shoplifting.
In 2017, Miller, then aged 54, pled guilty to second-degree murder in connection with Escalante's death. He was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby to 50 years in prison. At the sentencing, Escalante's wife, Belma Escalante, came from the Philippines to speak in victim impact statements. The judge noted that Miller's act had deeply harmed the family and that public outrage had been strong.
