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 an eviction notice on Monday when he walked into the leasing office at his apartment complex and shot a manager to death, according to charging documents.just before 4 p.m. Monday at the Alpine Apartment Homes in Midtown. Anchorage SWAT officers spent hours searching the complex for Jones, asking residents to stay in their homes, but he wasn’t found
According to the charges, Goecker had put an eviction notice on Jones’ apartment door earlier on Monday. Then, later that afternoon, Jones entered the leasing office and confronted him. The employee who reported the shooting was also in the office, and said Jones asked her, “Are you really kicking me and my pregnant girlfriend out onto the streets?’“She said there was a short struggle, over the gun, between Josiah and Jones,” the charges said. “She reported that the gun malfunctioned.
“ said when Jones pulled out the gun she thought she was going to die, and she thought he would come into the office and shoot her next,” the charges said.
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