Man arrested, charged in killing

An Alaska state trooper asked her to sit down three times before she would break her hardened stare from Nicholas Showers-Glover, who is accused of murdering her daughter and who looked everywhere but at the picture. "He needs to see this," she said.

Showers-Glover, who turned himself in at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday after more than four days on the run, was making his first court appearance. He is charged with murdering Wik's daughter, 18-year-old Jennifer Olson, and trying to murder the her boyfriend, 22-year-old Kori Johnson.

Police say Showers-Glover, who lived with the couple, walked in on them and opened fire with a handgun Friday while they lay in bed watching a movie.

Police and prosecutors are still not revealing what they believe led Showers-Glover, who has no criminal record and whose mother is a minister and police chaplain, to shoot his roommates in their home off Boniface Parkway.

Charging documents filed by prosecutors in Anchorage District Court only say the suspect was acting paranoid before the shooting.

"Make him face what he has to face. Let God judge him," said Wik, who came from Oregon to take her daughter's body home.

Annalesha Johnson, who was both the suspect's girlfriend and sister to one of the victims, first noticed something was wrong when she picked her boyfriend up from his job at a local cleaners the afternoon of the shooting, she told investigators.

Paranoia was not new to Showers-Glover, his pregnant girlfriend told police detectives.

As she was making dinner for him, she noticed he was holding a handgun, which he often did. To calm him down, they went into the victims' bedroom to pick out a movie when, all of a sudden, he started shooting at the couple in bed, she said. She was not injured.

Showers-Glover fled and got away despite a massive police search including dogs and a helicopter.

Annalesha Johnson was at the Anchorage Jail courthouse proceeding Wednesday afternoon, sitting with her dead friend's mother. As Showers-Glover stood before the judge, behind the glass protection, he hid his face behind court documents.

"He won't even look at me," Johnson said to her mother, who was also present.

When the defendant's lawyer, Rex Butler, asked the court to consider allowing the accused man to see his baby once it is born, Johnson shook her head and quietly responded, "He is not going to be seeing this baby."

During the brief proceeding, Wik angrily tried to get Showers-Glover to look at her from across the room. She repeatedly held up the 8-inch by 10-inch photo of her daughter, a much younger school photo of the girl.

When given a chance to speak to the court, Wik pleaded with the judge to keep Showers-Glover in jail.

"She was 18 years old. He ran for five days. Don't let him go," she said.

The judge set Showers-Glover's bail at $500,000 cash.

Theresa Lockhart, mother to Kori and Annalesha Johnson, said in a phone interview after the court proceeding that the victims had recently become engaged, and days before the shooting, Olson found out she was pregnant.

Lockhart said her son is out of the hospital now, still recovering from the two bullet wounds, one to his leg and one to this arm. He wanted to be at Showers-Glover's court appearance but in the end couldn't make it.

"He's just emotionally distraught and physically banged up," she said.

Daily News reporter Megan Holland can be reached at mrholland@adn.com.