A Mountain Village man was charged Friday with second-degree murder after his girlfriend was found dead inside his home, according to the Alaska State Troopers.
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Alexie Walters, 34, surrendered Thursday afternoon after running away from his house early that morning. Police officers from the Yukon River village in Southwest Alaska had tried to check on Walters' girlfriend, identified as 22-year-old Gertrude Queenie, but "fled when Walters came to the door with a shotgun and fired a shot," troopers said Friday in an online dispatch.
Walters now faces three assault charges — the troopers dispatch said he was reported to have "assaulted multiple people in the community" — and he's also alleged to have tampered with evidence, a felony.
Queenie's body would be sent to Anchorage for an autopsy, troopers said, while crime scene technicians from the city were being sent to Mountain Village to help with the investigation.