Family described the apartment manager, Josiah Goecker, as a caring family man. He leaves behind a daughter and a pregnant wife.
An Anchorage man had just received a notice of a leasing dispute on Monday when he walked into an office at his apartment complex and fatally shot theJesse Lee Jones, 27, is charged with multiple counts of murder in the death of 34-year-old Josiah Goecker. Police say thejust before 4 p.m. Monday at the Alpine Apartment Homes in Midtown.
Cerbana said Goecker had posted a notice Monday on Jones’ apartment door of a leasing dispute, not an eviction as described in police charging documents against Jones. “It was the least confrontational method that we could have taken to resolve that situation,” he said. According to the charges, surveillance video from the office recorded the struggle between the two men, with the shooting not seen on camera. Jones was recorded leaving the office, still holding the gun and the leasing notice.
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